Coffee varieties and producing areas Coffee varieties Tippika Ancient Tibica varieties

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Typic: the oldest native variety in Ethiopia, all Arabica are derived from Tibika. The top leaf of Tiebika is bronzed and the bean body is oval or thin in shape; the flavor is elegant, but the physique is weak, the disease resistance is poor and the fruit yield is less. Excellent manor beans such as the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, Manning of Sumatra and Kona of Hawaii all belong to Tibika. One of the characteristics is that the top leaf of Tibica is bronzed.

Around 1670, an Indian monk named Baba Bodan risked his life to steal a few coffee seeds from Yemen and take them back to his hometown for planting.

When the Dutch East India Company heard the news, the Dutch East India Company bought some seeds from the Indians and planted them in its colonies of Java, Ceylon and Indonesia, which was a great success, and the history of growing coffee on colonial estates began.

Merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company

According to genetic engineering tests of modern science and technology, the coffee seeds stolen by Baba Bodan are the origin of the modern coffee growing industry. This includes two descendants of Arabica: "Bourbon" and "Typica". The Dutch got the coffee seeds, all of which belonged to the Tibica family.

After that, the Dutch transported the Tibica saplings to the greenhouse of the botanical garden in Amsterdam for cultivation. During a friendly meeting, King Louis XIV of France received a gift from the mayor of Amsterdam-a coffee sapling.

Tiebika grows coffee beans

Louis XIV planted the coffee sapling in the back garden of Versailles as a souvenir. Later, the tree bore a lot of fruit and bred some seedlings. Louis XIV personally baked and brewed these coffee beans to feast guests, so at that time many aristocrats should be able to boast: "the king personally made coffee for me."

The coffee trade can bring huge profits and attract the attention of adventurers. Gabriel Matthew Dikru, a low-ranking French naval officer, tried to steal a batch of coffee saplings from the royal garden and took them on board to the new world of America full of infinite possibilities.

Matthew Dikrou went through untold hardships along the way to escape from crises such as pirates, storms, and running out of food and water. When he finally got away with setting foot on the land of America, those precious coffee saplings had been lost, leaving only the last half-dead one.

So Dikrou rushed the sapling to the land for careful care and managed to save it. The place where this sapling is planted is called Martinique Island.

In 1726, coffee was first harvested on Martinique Island. Fifty years later, coffee production here reached 19 million pounds, far surpassing the previous largest producer, Java in Southeast Asia.

In the late 18th century, the coffee industry developed rapidly in Brazil and Colombia, and further spread to Central America. The British brought coffee to Jamaica from Martinique in 1730, arrived in Saint Dominica in 1735 and spread from Dominica to Cuba in 1748

Until the 1940s, the vast majority of American coffee plantations mainly grew Tibica. However, because the yield of Tibica is not high, and its disease resistance is relatively low, it is gradually replaced by other varieties in many producing areas.

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