Overview
- Cabrales S.A. and Tucumán’s IDEP presented a coffee grown, harvested, and processed in the province that now carries a national origin seal.
- The product earned a sensory endorsement from Mumac Academy, which noted a balanced body, a persistent aroma, and a distinct profile tied to the subtropical pedemonte.
- Officials present the effort as a way to keep part of the roughly $500 million Argentina spends each year on imported coffee and to create jobs across planting, processing, roasting, and sales.
- Output remains small at only a few dozen hectares under cultivation, and leaders say scaling to thousands of hectares will take years of research, investment, and new processing capacity.
- The partnership rests on a 2025 agreement for training, data sharing, and research with support from INTA and local experimental stations, building on trials that began with five seeds brought in 2010.