The Historical Story of Kona Coffee in Hawaii when was Hawaii Kona Coffee first planted

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In 1813, a Spaniard first grew coffee in the ManoaValley Valley of Oahu, which is today the main campus of the University of Hawaii. In 1825, an English agronomist named John Wilkinson transplanted some coffee from Brazil to grow in the coffee garden of Chief Birch on the island of Oahu. Three years later, an American missionary named Samuel Riveland Rags brought branches of the coffee tree from Birch Emirates Garden to Kona, a descendant of the Arabica coffee tree that first grew on the Ethiopian plateau. To this day, Hawaii Kona Coffee still carries on its noble and ancient lineage.

The earliest coffee cultivation in Hawaii has adopted the model of large-scale coffee plantations, and at that time, coffee had not yet become a widely grown crop in the world, and the production and sale of Hawaiian Kona coffee experienced several ups and downs. After the outbreak of World War I, the demand for coffee increased sharply, and the government bought a lot of coffee for soldiers in order to maintain their combat ability. the rise in demand led to a rise in prices, and Kona coffee was no exception. The period from the outbreak of World War I to 1928 was the golden age of Kona Coffee. But the Great Depression that followed dealt a heavy blow to Kona Coffee. In 1940, the second World War caused the price of coffee to rise again. In order to avoid excessive price increases, the US government set a price cap for coffee. Even so, coffee farmers in Hawaii got a lot of benefits. During this period, their means of transportation for transporting coffee fruits were all replaced by donkeys and jeeps.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the price of Kona coffee in Hawaii experienced several ups and downs, but it was from this period that Kona Coffee established itself as the top coffee in the world. Even though Kona Coffee has been famous all over the world, its production remains relatively low.

Hawaiian Kona coffee has been grown in this place since the early 19th century and has never been interrupted, and only the coffee produced here can be called "Hawaiian Kona". The raw beans of Hawaiian Kona Coffee are usually 100 packages of individual coffee beans. Kon coffee beans are also often used to make mixed coffee along with coffee beans from other parts of the world. Kona coffee beans mixed with other beans are marked "Kona ​​ beans" on the packaging. Unfortunately, the content of Kona beans in these mixed beans can be very low, and the minimum content of Kona beans in Hawaii that can use the "Kona" label is only 10%. Therefore, if you are not in Kona in Hawaii, it is difficult to have 100% pure Kona coffee beans.