Alishan Tropical Dance Manor introduces what coffee producing areas are there in Taiwan?

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Coffee trees can now be seen in Taitung Township and Luye Township. In the 1980s, home-grown coffee could be seen on the side of the Taijiu highway. Twenty years ago, Pan Yung-feng, director general of the Luye Rural Peasant Association, tried to grow coffee. At that time, the market of tea was good, and coffee was gradually replaced by tea gardens. Luye Township mainly grows Arabica varieties and adopts organic cultivation. At present, it mainly sells coffee and raw beans. With the popularity of coffee beans, Luye Township has set off a trend of growing coffee. Five years ago, farmers began to waste tea gardens and grow Taiwanese coffee, which is popular in the market, with an area of about 15 hectares. The harvest has increased since last year, and the newly opened Luming Hotel will also serve Luye coffee.

In Wuhe platform, Mizuho Township, Hualien County, as early as the Japanese occupation period, the Japanese Kimura Company planted the first "Arabica" coffee in the eastern part of the country. It was once one of Taiwan's three major coffee producing areas. After the retrocession, due to rising labor costs, the Wuhe platform Coffee Garden gradually abolished and changed the planting of tea. Of the old coffee trees planted during the Japanese occupation, only the Golden Crane Tea Garden still has an area of about four hectares. Mainly for Arabica and Robista two varieties, because of Robista poor quality, poor taste, now almost no longer see. In recent years, there has been a coffee craze in Taiwan, and many farmers have changed to planting coffee. The area of Wuhe coffee has increased year by year, and now there are about 30 to 40 hectares of coffee plantations.

Alishan grows coffee, mostly in the Zou tribes such as Chashan, Xinmei, Leye, Dabang, Lijia and Laiji, covering an area of more than 30 hectares, and many coffee plantations also emphasize organic cultivation. The first person to plant coffee trees in Alishan was in Leye Village, where the owner of Zou Chuyuan began to plant coffee trees on a trial basis, which was quite successful. In the Zou tribe, thousands of meters above sea level, the Alishan Farmers Association helps tribesmen grow Arabica varieties of coffee. Due to the large temperature difference in the climate, the coffee beans have a better flavor. The output of Alishan alpine coffee is small. The Alishan Farmers Association helps farmers commercialize their products and bake them into high-quality coffee beans. There are also sharp-eyed businessmen who see the good throat of Alishan coffee, contract with local farmers and buy alpine coffee directly. For example, Jianhu Mountain World sells Alishan alpine coffee in the coffee museum, which has a good reputation. As Alishan has Zou customs and excellent mountain and forest scenery, the local landscape coffee garden is also open, and more and more Zou tribesmen are investing in growing coffee.

Qiutou Mountain in Dongshan, Tainan, grew coffee during the Japanese occupation period, and the planting area was between 300 and 800 meters above sea level, and the producing areas were concentrated in Zhongnanshi Village and Dongyuan Village. Mainly planted in Arabica, due to the high altitude, coffee beans full, drink neither sour nor bitter, pick and sell themselves, the land price is 1200 yuan per pound. The planting area of about 150 hectares is the largest in Taiwan, and Dongshan coffee is of good quality, with a fairly high level of roasted aroma, acidity, concentration, overall aroma and smell.

In Hebaoshan and Huashan, Gukeng Township, about 75 hectares of Arabica coffee trees were planted by economic farms during the Japanese occupation era. at that time, the coffee here was of particularly good quality and was paid tribute to the Japanese royal family, and the value of honor was equal to that of Taiwan juniper trees. More than 10 years ago, Zhang Laien returned to his hometown of Hebao Mountain and replanted coffee trees and opened Baden Coffee in Hebao Mountain. He was the first person to give Gukeng Coffee a name, and it was also the first coffee shop to commercialize "Taiwan Coffee." Hebao Mountain and Huashan Mountain range from 300 to 600 meters above sea level, belonging to sandy soil and good drainage, which is especially suitable for planting Arabica coffee trees. Ten years ago, Hebao Mountain planted only 2 hectares of coffee trees, but last year it soared to 100 hectares, mainly in Huashan, Guilin and Hebaoshan. Because Huashan and Guilin can overlook the Jiannan Plain, 50 or 60 scenic coffees have been opened on the hill. it has become the place with the most scenic coffee in Taiwan.

Nantou Huisun Forest Farm, an experimental forest farm at Imperial University in Hokkaido during the Japanese occupation, began to grow Arabica coffee in 1949. With 70 years of coffee cultivation and technology, coffee farm planting way is relatively extensive, no pesticide and no fertilization, appeal for organic and pure coffee. The main varieties of coffee grown are Arabica, which is said to be introduced from England in the Qing Dynasty and belongs to a relatively high-quality coffee variety. Huisun Forest Farm is a sandy soil with good drainage, about 770 Michael above sea level, and an average annual temperature of 16 to 26 degrees Celsius, which is very suitable for the growth of Arabica coffee trees. The coffee in the forest farm is 100% organic, without pesticide or fertilization. let the coffee absorb nutrients from the natural soil, which also created the special flavor of Huisun Coffee. Huisun Coffee also won the silver medal of the World Taste of Agricultural products in the United States.

Tropical dance music is a well-known manor representing Taiwan coffee on the world stage for the first time, located in the high-altitude mountain area of Alishan in Chiayi, with a great temperature difference between day and night, sufficient warm sunshine for coffee growth, sufficient moisture around clouds all the year round, unique geographical environment and climate, coupled with the garden owner Li Gaoming devoting himself to growing world-class boutique coffee and choosing friendly farming methods. Supplemented by self-developed organic fertilizer, the ripe coffee fruit was picked by hand and fermented in the manor. In 2009, Tropical Dance Music challenged the Annual Coffee Competition of the American Fine Coffee Association (SCAA) to reach the finals and won the 11th place in the world, which was the only one in Asia that year. Since then, it has been affirmed that the SCAA score is more than 80 points every year. It is rare to have a stable level and excellent quality!