When did the cultivation of Dutch coffee start? why are Dutch coffee beans rarely seen now?

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This time we will introduce the era when European countries began to grow coffee on a large scale. How did the plantation of this colony begin?

Coffee beans handled by European businessmen

As coffee began to spread in many parts of Europe, merchants made a huge fortune by reselling coffee beans bought in Egypt to Europe. Among them, Dutch businessmen do not want to buy their own, but grow their own coffee beans to make a profit.

Grow in Indonesia

In 1658, the Dutch East India Company (founded the world's first limited company in the Netherlands), brought "coffee saplings" to the cultivation of Indonesia in Sulawesi and Ceylon.

In 1680, now dealing with coffee seedlings from the colony of Java ordered by Mocha in Yemen, then came to the plantation in Jakarta in 1969 to be opened.

Coffee cultivation spread to the colonies

In 1706, the coffee tree arrived at the Amsterdam Botanical Garden from the Dutch island of Java. The seeds were planted in Suriname in South America and later in French Guiana.

Coffee cultivation further spread to the world, and coffee trees were introduced and planted on a large scale in Brazil in South America in 1726.

Compulsory cultivation system in the Netherlands

Since 1830, the compulsory cultivation system has been implemented under the initiative of the governor of the Netherlands, "Vandenbosch". Forced cultivation of sugarcane for local residents, sugar colonies, forced to grow "high-value crops as a commodity", such as coffee, Dutch growers will get the same benefits from the movement.

It brought great benefits to the Netherlands by forcing the colonists to go to work, but it put pressure on the lives of the people. This has been carried out by farmers in self-sufficient (such as Java) colonies, where hunger is painful and this forced training system destroys the foundations of life.

The compulsory planting system, which was rebounded by residents in 1870, took local residents for a long time, and for real 40 years I was forced to abolish unreasonable labor.

The background of the Dutch Financial crisis

The mandatory planting system is not the dissemination of coffee, but a policy to rebuild Dutch finance. As a result of the French revolution in July, Belgium will have created an independence movement in the Netherlands, and the Netherlands has begun to have a crush on sending troops.

As a result, Belgium became independent, and it seemed to be costly and economically costly to the army as a result of the withdrawal of Belgian industrial areas.

Coffee cultivation was enforced as a result of the financial crisis in the Netherlands

The coffee currently produced in Indonesia comes from residues that were forcibly planted in the Netherlands at that time. Because of the wealth we gained from commercial crops such as coffee, the Netherlands achieved the industrial revolution, but lagged behind European countries.

Although there is a mandatory aspect, I am surprised that it has been practiced on a large scale and continues to this day. Although there is still a legacy of a "colony", it is said to have not been infected with resentment. It is a historical fact that you have noticed that coffee is a special luxury in any country.