Introduction to the cultivation of Brazilian Bird shit Coffee in Historical Taste and Flavor producing areas

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Many people have heard of cat poop coffee and think it is the most expensive coffee, but it is not. Many places in Southeast Asia (including Yunnan in China) produce cat poop coffee. An even rarer type of animal-stomach fermented coffee is "birdshit coffee," which is currently produced only on Camocim Estate farms in Brazil.

History: In the 1960s and 1970s, when Brazil's Camocim farm was still under the old Sr. When Olivar Fontenelle de Araújo was under his name, he came up with various ways to protect the forest of the farm, such as introducing exotic species such as Pinus Elliottii and Eucalyptus, planting orchid plants of Lagerstroemia family, building small reservoirs, etc., thus opening the transition of Camocim into a modern organic and biodynamic farm.

In the 1980s and 1990s, these efforts began to bear fruit, improving the ecological environment of farms and greatly increasing wildlife.

World's rarest coffee: Jacu Bird Coffee

In 1999, in order to inherit the pioneering spirit of his 92-year-old grandfather, farmer Sr. Henrique Sloper Araújo decided to introduce organic coffee growing methods and grow coffee on hillsides more suitable for coffee.

Camocim Farm has approximately 123.5 acres (50 hectares) under coffee cultivation, and although some slash pine trees have been felled, the biodiversity of the farm has been preserved. Initially coffee was grown mainly in forest clearings and shady woodlands. Today coffee is grown only on terrace slopes with natural vegetation. The farm regularly prunes coffee trees and leaves and twigs are returned to the field as compost to improve soil organic matter.

Today, this organic method of cultivation, which balances natural forests and vegetation, has become a model for Brazil's future eco-friendly coffee production.

World's rarest coffee: Jacu Bird Coffee

Jacu Bird Coffee

Camocim Farm, Pedra Azul in Espirito Santo, Brazil, is famous for its South American bird called the Jacu. This bird lives in shady coffee groves and eats ripe coffee berries, which is the natural selection process for producing high-quality coffee.

Farmer Henrique Sloper does not see the birds, which eat ripe coffee berries, as pests, but as natural additions to the farm flora and fauna, so Camocim welcomes them Jacu Bird, who sees them as part of the farm's agricultural ecosystem, uses them as the most effective coffee picking "workers", collecting the odor-free bird droppings once the birds have eaten the ripe coffee and defecated under the coffee trees, sending them to special drying sites to dry, clean them to Parchment beans, and store them for about three months. Jacu Bird coffee has a pleasant, soft taste, with a hint of nutty sweetness and dryness, lingering molasses, moist notes of dark bread and a hint of black pepper.

Jacu Bird is sweet, thick and slightly tart than traditional Brazilian coffee grown at Camocim Farm. This is undoubtedly the rarest coffee in the world.

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Camocim Estate （Jacu Bird Coffee）

Olivar Fontenelle de Araújo

Henrique Sloper

Espirito Santo

Pedra Azul

400-500 m above sea level

1500-2000 mm

Bourbon, Icatu, Catuai

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sun drying on a bed

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Camocim Estate has been certified as an organic farm by Instituto Biodinamico do Brazil