The development of Yemeni coffee _ why Yemeni coffee is so difficult to be popular?

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Although Ethiopia is the birthplace of Arabica, the first coffee that Europeans drank from the end of the 17th century to the beginning of the 18th century came from Yemen. At that time, all African or Arabian coffee was exported from the port of Mocha, and mocha became synonymous with coffee, while Harald, the capital of the city walls, became a supporting role. However, three hundred years later, Yemeni coffee is no longer what it used to be, coffee production is decreasing year by year, and the current annual output is only 12000-8000 tons, which seems to have disappeared from the coffee map. Based on the current global annual coffee production of 7 million tons, Yemen accounts for only about 0.17%, which is no longer important. The Yemeni mocha, which used to dominate the world, has been reduced to a marginal producing country, can it not make coffee fans distressed?

A trip to Yemen is sure to make people wonder: "was this once a coffee country?" As far as I could see, there was almost no one drinking coffee, and the streets were full of refreshing people chewing on Carter grass. The coffee culture that Yemen used to be proud of has changed its tune. A Yemeni folk song eulogizing coffee goes like this: "Yemeni coffee is like gems and wealth on treetops." This lyric is obviously not in line with today's situation.

In the past five years, coffee has been the queen of the ranking of economic crops in Yemen, but Carter grass has been dominant year after year. In 2004, the output of card grass in Yemen reached 11 million tons, but coffee fell to 11500 tons. Yemenis seem to have forgotten the existence of coffee. Yemenis are used to drinking coffee before breakfast and switching to coffee after breakfast or noon. There are far more people drinking this kind of fruit tea than coffee drinkers, and there are far more street vendors selling dried coffee pulp than coffee beans. But looking back at the history of Yemeni coffee, coffee fans do not need to blame too much. After all, Yemenis have a longer history of drinking coffee than drinking coffee. As mentioned in the first chapter of this book, the two influential elders, Shadley, the patron saint of the port of Mocha and Dabani, the godfather of coffee in the port of Aden, drank a cup of coffee to refresh their spirits in the 15th century, and later blessed the soul and took the lead in advocating coffee bean drinks with better brain-awakening effectiveness. from then on, the romantic history of coffee began. Yemenis occupy an indelible position in the history of coffee evolution, but now the coffee culture is declining year by year, and the Yemeni Ministry of Agriculture is also in a hurry to hire foreign experts to find out the crux of the problem and find a solution to avoid the disappearance of well-known Yemeni boutique coffee-Matari, Ithmari, Shaerzi and Sanani.