Katim single bean coffee bean introduction variety flavor description planting area

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Catimor Catimor

It was developed in Portugal in 1959 as a cross between Timor and Caturra, which have rust resistance. Early maturity, strong disease resistance, yield is much higher than other varieties with commercial value. For this reason, fertilization and shade must be applied diligently. The progeny of Catimor T-8667 are relatively short, with large fruits and seeds. Catimor line T-5269 is very strong and suitable for planting in areas with an altitude of 600-900 meters and an annual rainfall of more than 3000 mm. T-5175 is highly productive and robust, but can be troublesome at too high or too low an altitude. At low elevations, its quality is similar to other commercially valuable varieties, but above 1,200 meters, its quality is much better than Bourbon, Caturra and Cauai.

Catimor: An important variety of commercial beans at present. East Timor was colonized by Portugal for 400 years. The Portuguese had long been in contact with the coffee trees in East Timor. In 1959, the Portugal moved the Brazilian bourbon mutant Kadura to East Timor and interbred it with a Tim of Robusta descent. They succeeded in breeding Kadura, which was highly resistant to disease and highly productive. Between 1970 and 1990, leaf rust affected coffee producing countries around the world. With the assistance of international organizations, coffee producing countries vigorously promoted catim to resist leaf rust and increase production capacity. Although Victim inherited Robusta's strong disease resistance, it also inherited the gene with poor flavor. In addition, although the early Victim had a large production capacity, it needed shade trees to wait on it, otherwise it would wither easily. It could be said that it was strong on the outside and weak on the inside. Many botanists have studied the improvement of Catim varieties for decades, and dozens of new varieties have been developed. Colombia is the largest harvest country, in 1982 to cultivate solar-able Catim, and the name of the country "Colombia." Colombia claims that after many generations of cross-breeding [Colombia] and the general Kadim is different, and now Kadura has become the country's two main varieties, has long replaced the weak and sickly production of less Tibica. However, Colombia's [COE] winners are mostly Kadura, and Colombia, which has Robusta ancestry, rarely wins. Colombia exports a lot of [Supermo] commercial beans should be lower altitude [Colombia] or Kadura, rather than the traditional Tibica, this is the main reason why [Supermo] flavor is getting poorer, but Colombia can not reproduce the production of less Tibica.

In order to improve the bad evaluation of Catimor Catimo cup test, botanists in various countries have turned back to multi-generation cross breeding of Arabica and Catimo in recent years, trying to reduce the robusta bloodline and improve the elegant flavor of Arabica. Therefore, new generations of Catimo have been bred, including [Catimor H 528],[Catimor H 306], and [Catimor T 5175] and [Catimor T 8667] in Costa Rica. But Costa Rica has abandoned the cultivation of kadim in favour of the kadura variety and is exporting improved kadim to Asian producers. There are countless strains of Catim, and the cup test results and habits of each strain are also different. However, although it has been improved for many years, Catim has not yet entered the top 30 list of international cup test competitions. The biggest weakness of kadrim is that it is not inferior to kadura, kaduai, or bourbon beans grown at low altitudes, but it is significantly inferior to bourbon, kaduai, or kadura when grown at high altitudes. It remains to be seen whether Katim can rise to the level of elegance. Looking forward to one day can cultivate suitable for high-altitude super Catim, shocked the boutique coffee world.

February 26-28, 2001: The First Asian Regional Round-Table on Sustainable, Organic and Specialty Coffee Production, Processing and Marketing was held in Chiang Mai. During the meeting, Dr. Ernesto Illy, the owner of Illy Coffee Company in Italy, mentioned the poor quality of Catimer coffee in his speech on "Factors Affecting the Quality of Coffee Green Beans". Because it has 25% of the Robusta coffee gene, it increases rust resistance but reduces quality.