Coffee evaluation? Industry: guiding cultivation is more important

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Taiwan's coffee cultivation model is not like the large area of farm beans abroad, most of which are small coffee farmers. -The Kukeng Township Office of Yunlin will soon hold a "coffee bean evaluation workshop" in the hope that Kukeng Coffee will achieve good results. However, some people in the coffee industry believe that in order to improve the quality of Taiwanese coffee, it is more necessary to guide coffee farmers on coffee cultivation.

Zhang Jingke, head of Gukeng Shanhaiguan Coffee, studied for 10 years from planting, post-production and baking, only to blossom and bear fruit in 2014 and win the prize of Taiwan Fine Coffee Bean Evaluation Special Treatment Group. He said bluntly, but these 10 years are not in vain, and you don't have to just want to win the prize at the beginning.

Six years ago, Chang Ching-ke began to contract coffee beans with coffee farmers in Nantou and Chiayi in order to stabilize their quality. He instructed them in pruning, fertilization, and pest management. He said that what Taiwan coffee needs most at present is to improve the planting level.

Sun Wang-tien, former director of the agricultural economics department of Kukeng Rural Township, says that SCAA coffee evaluation is a model used by foreign businessmen to select beans from their plantations. But Taiwan coffee farmers are all small farmers, and their production is limited. What is more fundamental is to teach them how to cultivate and manage coffee well.

Sun Wang-tien says that Taiwanese put too much emphasis on cup testing and green bean evaluation, but the most basic cultivation has not been taken seriously. Some coffee farmers see more and more cherry fruits floating every year, but they still don't know whether it is fruit beetles.