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Mr Prosper Lafayette, the Chatard washing station operations manager, with a handful of parchment coffee.   De-pulping coffee cherries at the Puilboreau washing station.
View of Puilboreau washing station from the main road between Cap-Haïtien and Gonaïves.
At Chatard washing station Romain Guilbo (farmer) is delivering cherries and Prosper Lafayette is hand sorting them to remove any unripe or rotten cherries.

Located in the Puilboreau area of the Nord Department, the Koperativ Plante kafe Pilbowo (Coffee Producers Cooperative of Puilboreau) is one of the smaller RECOCARNO co-operatives. There are washing stations at Puilboreau and Chatard and a reception centre at Marmelade; these process coffee from KPKP's 400 smallholder members.

For milling, KPKP's coffee currently needs to be transported down to the coast and up into the mountains again to the CACGAVA mills in Dondon (one of which is owned by CACGAVA and a more powerful electric mill owned by RECOCARNO).

When the planned central processing facility is completed near Cap-Haïtien this extra journey will be avoided.

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Some facts and figures
Washing stations 1
Drying patio area (m2) 247
Fermentation basin (m3) 2.86
Warehouse (m3) 53
Electric de-pulping -
Manual de-pulping 1
Electric hulling machine -
Production total (tonnes) 10
Export total (tonnes) ??

KPKP coffee is grown at heights between 400 and 1100 metres.

To see more inforrmation about the Plaisance and Puilboreau area click here.