KEKCHI is a coffee from the Coban terroir, produced by the FEDECOVERA cooperative (Federacion de Cooperativas de las Verapaces). Created in 1976, this cooperative brought together a small group of producers, and today it brings together 42 cooperatives and 21 associations. In total, FEDECOVERA represents 33,000 producer families. In Guatemala, there are 22 Mayan communities and the producers of FEDECOVERA belong to two of them: Q'eqchi (hence the name of this coffee) and Poqomchi. The cooperative was born around coffee, and over time it has diversified into other agricultural products such as cardamom, cocoa, tea, pepper and turmeric.
