Akha Ama Coffee

Akha Ama Coffee's uniquely exquisite taste is composed by the smiles of farmers who work with respect for themselves and the environment Akha Ama Coffee is a small production company providing 100% Arabica parchment coffee and green beans. Akha Ama Coffee stands for sustainability and fair trade. To support social responsibility and community development is the very reason for our efforts. We are local entrepreneurs supporting Akha communities and encouraging the farmers to put more efforts in sustainable and organic agriculture. Akha Ama Coffee offers farmers the possibility to earn a fair and respectable living.  The Akhas belong to an indigenous group living in the highlands of Thailand. The agricultural knowledge has been passed on from ancestor to ancestor down to our generation. Ama means mother in our language.There is no better name to express what our coffee brand stands for: Akha Ama Coffee is like the kidness and the endurance of a loving mother.   What is the story behind Akha Ama? Akha Ama Coffee was founded in 2007 as a local enterprise to support disadvantaged farmers and to encourage them in their efforts directed at sustainable farming. Akha Ama Coffee aims at helping coffee farmers. The area around Maejantai village was particularly afflicted by economic crisis and has left families having to fight for their existence - with no access to education, food and health care. In the past farmers have used remedies such as chemical products, fertilizer and pesticides or insecticides, in the hope of speedy improvement. They did not realise then, that by doing so they threatened their very existence even more so. Akha Ama Coffee offers today to the communities in this region a chance to strengthen the local economy by introducing concepts of sustainable and organic agriculture and by providing access to the business market for them. Akha Ama Coffee also raises awareness among the villagers, assists and advises them in order to achieve all principles of fair trade.