Puebla will be responsible for the federal “Café Del Bienestar”
By boosting coffee production, Puebla hopes to become one of the leading marketers and suppliers of coffee beans both domestically and internationally; therefore, the Cafe Del Bienestar and Café Puebla Cinco de Mayo projects are expected to mark the beginning of a period of consolidation.
Ana Laura Altamirano Pérez, Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), stated that the current administration, in conjunction with the federal government, understands that the countryside must be a driving force for progress and that in some regions of the state, efforts are underway to revive agricultural traditions that have been abandoned by producers due to a lack of support, forcing many families in various municipalities to migrate.
Puebla accounts for approximately 20% of Mexico’s coffee production, reflecting the sector’s capacity to operate—a sector that requires only technical support to produce high-quality raw materials. Coffee farmers in Puebla have implemented strategies that leverage their productive capacity, leading them toward the industrialization and commercialization of finished products.
The state and federal governments are working to add greater value to “Café del Bienestar” and “Café Cinco de Mayo” at the Economic Development Hub for Well-Being (Podecibi) in the municipality of San José Chiapa. Two companies will be in charge of this project, which aims to create 800 direct jobs.
Both projects are part of the work carried out by the Centers for Innovation and Transformation of Agricultural, Livestock, and Aquaculture Products (Citraa), whose goal is to help producers transition from selling raw materials to processes that add greater value to their products.
Altamirano Pérez emphasized that, in the case of Café Del Bienestar, the goal is to produce the entire crop in Puebla, which is why they are working with the federal government to build the processing plant on a three-hectare site at the Podecibi in San José Chiapa.
