How to treat Indonesian Coffee: how to drink Mantenin on Lake Toba, Sumatra

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Tibika was transplanted from India to Indonesia at the end of the 17th century. After hundreds of years of cultivation, a variant of Tibika has been developed in Sumatra. It is smaller than the native species, but it retains the delicacy of Tiebika.

[planting height] 900 mi-1200m above sea level

Shangxuan Mantenin comes from the mountains around Lake Lake Toba, which is an alpine freshwater lake located in the north of Medan, the capital of Sumatra. The average height is about 900 meters above sea level.

Indonesia is the largest archipelago country in the world. Arabica coffee was introduced and planted during Dutch rule in the 18th century. Mantenin is called 'the most important coffee in the world'. It is the fourth largest producing country in the world with an annual output of 7 million bags, of which Arabica accounts for only 10-15%. The main producing areas are in Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi. Coffee is harvested twice a year in May and October, respectively. The size of the coffee farm is not about 1 Mel-3 hectares, with an average area of only 1.44 hectares. Coffee beans on these small lands are almost the only crop and are the main source of income for 5 million local people. There are few local manors or cooperatives, acquired by Indonesian state-owned or private companies.

Coffee farmers remove the pulp by hand, a few use machines to remove the pulp, and then sell coffee beans directly in the local village bazaar or send them to nearby concentration stations when the coffee beans are still very wet. Batak in Indonesia belongs to matrilineal society. Usually in the village market, women bring crops to do business, and their prices are very hard, so the prices of these coffee beans, which only deal with half of them in the domestic market, are very high. Even higher than coffee from Latin America and Africa, Indonesia has developed a unique shelling machine that can handle sheepskin beans with only 18% humidity, which turns the beans into a unique blue / green similar to the most strictly selected boutique beans. The export classification of high-quality Indonesian Arabica beans is screened manually, and these people are guaranteed by the government minimum wage. You can also earn higher bonuses based on your performance.

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