Introduction of coffee flavor characteristics of Guava Plain in Guatemala New Oriental Coffee producing area

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Guatemala is one of the most important coffee producing countries in Central America, with long mountains and different regional climates, thus creating eight major coffee producing areas in Guatemala, all located on the highland topography of the subtropical climate, with abundant and stable rainfall and fertile volcanic ash soil is an excellent environment for coffee trees to grow.

Plan del Guayabo is located next to the Volc á n de Sucht á n volcano, which means "guava plain" in Spanish. The manor is owned by Benjamin Donado (Mr. Benjam í n Donado), which means "guava plain" in Spanish. The Donado family has been engaged in coffee production for more than 20 years since 1990. Before that, local farmers were so strange to coffee production that it was hard to imagine planting coffee trees in such a steep and high-altitude environment, but now it has been proved that Benjamin made the right choice to produce high-quality coffee beans with different varieties and different processing methods.

In the early New Oriente region of Guatemala, it was common for berry buyers to regularly buy coffee cherries from farmers and then resell them to larger middlemen, where they were resold to the town of Esquipulas, where they were mixed with other batches to form a large batch of SHB that could not be traced back, and finally sold around the world under the name New Oriental (New Oriente). In view of this, more and more international raw bean traders are trying to change this situation, working with local partners to produce coffee raw beans with excellent flavor and traceable origin, breaking the traditional vicious circle. Guava Plain Manor is one of the important members. New Oriental producing area

This unique region, which greets the first dawn of the country every day, is the easternmost producing area of Guatemala. New Oriental is one of the seven producing areas of boutique coffee defined by the Guatemalan Coffee Association (Anacafe) in 1980, which is defined as the land between Barberena, Jutiapa and Chiquimula.

Since 1950, coffee in this area has been grown almost entirely by small producers. Now, what used to be one of the poorest and most isolated regions of Guatemala is vibrant and growing, and almost every farm on the mountain has become a coffee-producing unit. Most of the coffee in the New Oriental region comes from small family-owned estates, which also grow other basic crops as daily food. This producing area is rapidly becoming more and more famous among coffee connoisseurs, and their demand for this coffee is increasing year by year. As a result, every farm on the mountain has shifted to growing coffee, replacing other crops as the main source of products and income.

Located in the area of frequent volcanic activity in the past, the climate of the New Oriental producing area is cloudy and rainy. The soil here is made up of metamorphic rocks that evenly mix many minerals, which is different from other volcanic soil producing areas.

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