The reasons for the sharp decline in coffee production in Costa Rica

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Coffee exports account for 25% of Costa Rica's total exports. Costa Rica has also benefited from the establishment of the Central American Institute for Agricultural Research (TurrialbaoftheCentralAmericanAgriculturalResearchlnstitute, referred to as IAAC) in Tarasu, which is an important international research centre.

Costa Rica's coffee industry, originally controlled by the Costa Rican Coffee Industry Company (InstitutodelCafedeCostaRica, ICAFE), has been taken over by the official Coffee Committee (OficinadelCafe). Among the exported coffee, those products that are considered to be of substandard quality are colored with blue vegetable dyes and then transferred back to China for sale. Coffee consumed domestically (dyed blue or last dyed) accounts for about 10% of total production, and local per capita coffee consumption is twice that of Italy or the United States.

In addition, while Costa Rica has many advantages in growing coffee at higher elevations, the resulting additional transport costs must be taken into account, which is likely to make coffee production unprofitable. The coffee industry in Costa Rica has adopted new technologies to increase efficiency, including the use of "electric eyes" to select beans and identify coffee beans of irregular size.

Costa Rica's coffee skills are very high, regardless of breeding, planting or post-processing (washing, half-sun) is enough for all producing countries to learn from. However, the supply of famous producing areas falls short of demand, and unscrupulous operators often mix them with high-quality beans in other second-rate producing areas, and the producing areas hundreds of miles away from Tarazhu also dare to fish in troubled waters in the name of Tarazhu, so they have to be careful.

Because Costa Rica often suffers from severe natural disasters, and local people drink coffee twice as much as the United States and Italy, and because Costa Rican coffee is often blended, China imports less and tends to be exported to Japan, the United States and Italy. So there is less Costa Rican coffee in China, so the price range is higher.