PUERTO RICO SALES CALL OUR MANAGER AT (787) 642-6513
PARA VENTAS EN PUERTO RICO LLAME A NUESTRO GENERENTE AL (787) 642-6513
 

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West Indian Treasures Inc. (WITI) is a family-owned business established in 2003. We strive to improve the quality of life of our clients and suppliers. Our philosophy is simple; we shall provide the best organic, fair traded and sustainable products for the benefit of our clients and the environment environment. We are fully committed to sustainability (economic, social and environmental).  Through the production, marketing and sales of our environmentally-friendly products we support our communities, producers and customers. This also provides a good incentive to protect agricultural lands and the ecosystems that support  as well as protecting the environment. 

In Puerto Rico, we are the exclusive distributor of GrainPro pesticide-free hermetic storage units provide long or medium term organic storage for dry food products, eliminating the need for chemical insecticides and fumigants and, hence, the associated risks to farmers, agricultural laborers, consumers, wildlife and the environment, specifically the ozone layer. Even the worst insect infestations are rapidly controlled without chemical insecticides by GrainPro's hermetic storage units. Fungi do not grow in the low oxygen atmosphere of the Cocoons or SuperGrainbags, and therefore harmful aflatoxins do not spread. For more information about these products visit GrainPro's website at www.GrainPro.com.

For sales in Puerto Rico please send us an email using the contact us form or call us our Puerto Rico Operation's Manager at 787-642-6513.

Puerto Rico is famous for its coffee. Puerto Rican coffee has been produced since the 17th Century in this tropical island. The quality of Puerto Rican coffee has been recognized by many. In the late 1800's through the 1950's Puerto Rican coffee beans were exported to the Vatican.  Puerto Rican coffee was considered the "official coffee of the Pope". Now, the Puerto Rican coffee industry is trying to regain its popularity by focusing once again in its quality. Specialty coffee producers are growing. Now, many farmers are going back to their coffee producing roots and have started to grow coffee the way it naturally occurs in its native habitat in eastern Africa, under the shade of native trees.




High quality coffee beans produced under the canopy of native shading trees could be jeopardized by poor management after harvesting.  Once the coffee cherries are harvested from the coffee trees, they need to be de-pulped, washed and dried before they can be stored. Coffee beans could be stored as "Parchment" (just like the ones in the above picture) or they could be stored as "Green Beans" ready to be roasted. The difference between parchment and green beans is that the parchment beans have a husk layer covering them. This husk is later taken out and you get the green coffee beans, and this is what coffee roasters use for their blends. Because dry coffee beans (parchment or green) absorb moisture and other elements from the atmosphere, they need to be stored in a chemical free environment. At the same time these dry coffee beans must preserve certain balance of moisture inside them. This chemical free environment and the humidity balance are accomplished by storing these beans in the organic-approved GrainPro bags.