Las Flores | Honduras | Espresso
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Producer: Roger Dominguez
Region: Marcala, La Paz
Varietal: Parainema
Process: Natural
Altitude: 1500 masl
Roger Antonio Domínguez Márquez owns several farms in La Paz, Marcala. Roger is a young producer who inherited his father’s midsize farms, which came into the family in the early 1990s. He has three parcels of land in Marcala, all between 3–5 hectares, at good altitude for the region, above 1,300 meters. He grows a small variety of heirloom types, mostly Bourbon, Catuai, and Caturra, and he’s specific about his wet-milling and drying.
Parainema is a variety within the Sarchimor (T5296) group that traces back to CIFC's research on rust resistance in 1958/59 in Portugal. It began with the Timor hybrid, a natural cross of Arabica and Robusta that occurred on the island of Timor, with the Robusta counterpart providing rust resistance. The research group eventually crossed Timor with the compact Villa Sarchi variety, creating Sarchimor (H361). In 1971, Sarchimor was then given to research groups in many countries just as coffee leaf rust was spreading throughout Central America. By 1978, the plant was showing promise as a dwarfed rust-resistant hybrid evolving into what researchers in Costa Rica called T5296. Samples of this Costa Rica selection were sent to IHCAFE in Honduras, and further generations of selections produced the country's Parainema. It is a high-yield and quality plant that is able to be planted densely due to it's dwarfed size. It is resistant to rust and nematodes and well-adapted to medium altitudes.
