Description of coffee flavor characteristics of Salvadoran coffee planting and production areas of coffee

Salvadoran coffee refers to the coffee produced in the small South American country of El Salvador, where the coffee body is light, aromatic, pure, slightly sour, the flavor is extremely balanced, is a specialty of Central America. With sour, bitter, sweet and other taste characteristics, the best baking degree is moderate, deep.

In the early 1990s, guerrilla warfare greatly damaged the country's national economy, reducing coffee production from 3.5 million bags in the early 1970s to 2.5 million bags in 1990-1991. The eastern part of the country was most affected by guerrilla warfare, and many farmers and workers were forced to leave the manor. The shortage of funds has led to a sharp drop in coffee production, from 1200 kg per hectare in the past to less than 900kg per hectare today.

In addition, Zhengfu imposed an additional 15% tariff on exported coffee in 1986, that is, an additional 15% in addition to the existing 30% tax. Taxes, together with unfavorable exchange rates, have greatly reduced the export of coffee and the quality of coffee.

Zhengfu finally realized the great role of coffee in the national economy, such as solving employment, earning foreign exchange and developing agricultural production, so it privatized part of the coffee export industry in 1990, hoping to increase the income rate of coffee in the export market.

Today, this coffee accounts for 40% of the country's exports. The best quality coffee is exported from January to March, and 35% of the extra hard beans are exported to Germany.

Coffee variety

The civil war caused chaos and affected economic development, but ironically allowed the ancient coffee to be preserved, and the situation was so chaotic that coffee producers in El Salvador failed to catch up with the renewal of coffee varieties in Central and South America. The artificial breeding variety of ragogipe (or maragogype) was first bred in 1958 (1954).

Pacamara species is a rare artificial breeding of excellent varieties, blue is better than blue, perfectly inheriting the advantages of the mother plant, both the excellent taste of pacas species, raw bean granules also inherited the large size of malagogipe. The Pacamara species is thought to be the result of the pursuit of large Arabica species.

Coffee planting

Most of them are planted by small farmers.

Grading of farmers in El Salvador: (1 htct= 105mu = 10000 square meters)

Small farmers, small producer, area less than 7.0hect

Medium-sized peasant household, medium producer, area between 7. 0-70hect

Large farmers, large producer, the area is larger than 70hect.

Farmers use traditional planting methods, with almost 100% shade planting.

Coffee harvest

Pick by hand.

The harvest season lasts from October to March.

The peak occurs from November to February.

Coffee treatment

Washing treatment, sun drying.

Coffee export

Raw beans are exported throughout the year, and raw beans are stored in the warehouse in the form of shelled beans.

Coffee producing area

Seven of the country's 14 provinces produce coffee, with the largest number in the provinces of chalatenango and santa ana.

Geographically, it is mainly distributed in the north and south mountain systems, with the land bordering Guatemala and Honduras in the north and a large number of volcanoes along the Pacific coastline in the south.

El Salvador divides the producing area into six mountain systems

Charat Nango production area is famous for its outstanding performance in coe events this year. A few years ago, chalatenango was unknown, and some farmers in the area began to grow Pacamara in the 1990s. In 2006, a small farm in the region played in coe with pacamara and won the runner-up in the race with a fascinating flavor. In 2007, several farms in the area took part in the competition with pacamara. As a result, they won the first, third and fourth places, and became famous in the pacamara of chalatenango and ta. The producing area is located in the Altotepec Metagan mountain system in the north, which is the purple area at the top of the image above.

Flavor and quality of coffee

El Salvador is a producer of high-quality commercial Arabica beans and is famous for its strict and effective quality control.

Since 2003, he has joined the COE competition.

With excellent ancient coffee, successfully entered the boutique coffee market.

Coffee flavor is related to the microclimate of the producing area. On the whole, Salvadoran coffee inherits the mild quality of Central American coffee. It is soft, slightly sour and has beautiful sweetness, so it is suitable for blending.

Boutique Salvadoran coffee can also be impressive, including some pacamara varieties, which show active acidity, layered and deep taste, and long