Tropic-X's largest specialty coffee farm, 5 Corazones, is located near Villa Rica in Pasco, which is a region known for a long history of specialty coffee production. The nearly 300-hectare farm has its own wet processing plant, as well as housing for more than 200 workers. Each worker is guaranteed at least 2 meals a day in a permanent kitchen, unique in the region. These incentives, along with guarantees of social benefits even for part-time workers, ensure stable production during the rainy season, when it is more difficult for workers to return home.

Named after the famous trees found on the farm, Matapalo is the first central Tropic-X farm founded more than 30 years ago by Shared-X founders Tony Salas and Gisela Camminati. Located in the Chanchamayo region of Peru's central jungle, Matapalo has a wet mill processing plant, which also serves as a central collection point for our partner association in the region, Copaceyba. What makes Matapalo unique is its consistent production of specialty coffees, including high altitude single origins as well as special processes.

In the protected region of the biosphere around one of the farms owned by Tropic-X, Río Santo SAC, located in the jungles of Puerto Bermúdez in Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru. Rio Santo SAC is an independent company, jointly owned by Tropic-X, which operates and markets 700 ha of farmland where there are established plantations of sustainable banana and bolaina wood, cacaco, specialty coffee varieties and bamboo. The Impact Farming model will be part of the knowledge sharing ecosystem at the base of Rio Santo SAC, including advanced sustainable systems, management practices, field innovations, post-harvest technologies and business relationships brought by Tropic-X.

More than 10 years ago, Tropic-X founded Cooperativa Copaceyba from a group of small farmers in the area surrounding Tropic-X's Matapalo farm.

The Copaceyba Cooperative cultivates at altitudes above 1,400 m in the District of San Luis de Shuaro in Chanchamayo, an ideal climate for the production of high-quality coffee. The Copaceyba cooperative is made up of 12 farmers who produce specialty coffee on 39 hectares.

Tropic-X has supported the Copaceyba cooperative to help it significantly increase its yield per hectare, and encouraged them to surround their coffee with native flora, preserving natural biodiversity and acting as biocontrol for pests.

Tropic-X began working with Flor de Café in 2019, an association of small coffee producers based in Mariscal Castilla, a neighboring town to our Matapalo farm.

Tropic-X has provided technical assistance to small producers, along with a nutritional plan to support their coffee campaign. The president of Flor de Café, Sergio Escobar, expressed his satisfaction at working with Tropic-X under the Impact Agriculture model and after the 2019 season, 14 new farmers wanted to join the cooperative's initial 27 farmers.

Today, Flor de Café has 41 producers growing specialty coffee on 128.5 hectares. Escobar plans to use proceeds from Flor de Café sales with Tropic-X to improve his crop nutrition strategies, increasing his yield per hectare and quality for the 2021 season.

The Yanesha "Beer Coffee" Association has entered into a new relationship with Tropic-X for the 2021 season.

Tropic-X has worked with the Yanesha community for a number of years, ensuring that all its members have national identification documents, allowing access to healthcare and banking. Members of our Tropic-X community from our neighboring Cinco Corazones farm have attended Yanesha celebrations for many years and we are delighted to partner with them to bring their coffee to international markets.