Introduction of Yemeni mocha coffee import standard introduction of Yemeni mocha coffee cultivation introduction of Yemeni coffee price

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The port of Mocha is adjacent to the mountain area where coffee is produced.

In the early 17th century, the Dutch first established a coffee trading company, and coffee began to be exported to Europe from the port of Mocha, from Amsterdam to the Western European market in Paris. People began to use the term "mocha" to refer to this refreshing black drink, "because most of the beans are exported to other countries from the port of Mocha in Yemen, people refer to Yemeni coffee by the name of the port." Because of its unique chocolate aroma, fancy coffee with cocoa milk or chocolate syrup was later called mocha.

It is speculated that the thriving port of Mocha in the mid-17th century

Yemeni coffee production is far from what it used to be. Mocha is no longer the center of the world's coffee and has long lost its function as a commercial port, but Yemen still produces some of the world's most unique coffee beans. For example, Yemeni Madali mocha coffee (Mocha Mattari), up to now is a kind of beans that makes real coffee lovers crazy.

It comes from Bany Mattar province, west of the Yemeni capital, where coffee farmers continue the age-old tradition of producing and growing coffee: try not to use artificial chemicals such as chemical fertilizers and plant poplars to provide shade for coffee growth. As they did hundreds of years ago, these trees are planted on steep terraces and grow tiny, light green coffee beans on barren and dry land, showing a chocolate-like bitterness after deep roasting. As well as red wine, tobacco, cinnamon and other complex aromas, as well as a long cream of sweet. In addition, due to the scarcity of production, Yemeni mocha coffee is becoming more precious in the market. In 2016, the average price of Yemeni coffee in the United States was $173 a pound.

Most coffee producing areas in Yemen still adopt the original method of growing coffee.

Although the coffee trade in Yemen is not as good as it used to be, it still has some unique advantages. On the one hand, the top varieties of Yemeni mocha coffee, such as Madali and Mokha Ismaili, are still of great value in the coffee market, and they are the boutique coffee that coffee enthusiasts craze.

On the other hand, according to the analysis of the International Coffee Organization (ICO), consumers in western countries have become more and more inclined to coffee of origin with high quality and low price in recent years, while Yemen still has an annual output of more than 10,000 tons of coffee, while it really has the original ecological, pollution-free and other selling points valued by western countries. If we can improve the picking, drying and stir-frying technology of coffee beans, establish a quality control system, and make more beans meet the import standards of developed countries, then there is still a lot of room for upward development. Perhaps, in addition to relying on foreign forces to build desalination plants, coffee crops growing in this land may also bring some hope to a country plagued by war and division in the future.