Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, bordering Brazil and Colombia

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If you want to find such a romantic, beautiful, distant and dangerous dream territory in many coffee producing areas, it is Bolivia!

Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, a landlocked country bordering Brazil and Colombia. Although it is a country with great potential for coffee exports, its production has been quite scarce and the conditions for growing coffee are excellent, but the challenges are also extremely daunting, resulting in an extraordinarily rich agricultural history built on a very difficult land.

Java

The variety known locally in Bolivia as long-shaped beans is named for its long appearance, and its official name should be Java. Java is a very interesting bean species, which is strongly related to Indonesia from its name. But in fact, Java was originally a coffee tree species born in the primeval forest of Ethiopia, collected by local ethnic groups, and then spread to Indonesia through Yemen, where it was named Java. It was generally believed that Java is a branch of Tibika, but genetic comparison shows that Java is actually a coffee variety Abysinia from Ethiopia.

After Indonesia, Java spread first to the nearby Timor island group, and then to Cameroon in East Africa, where it was first released for farmers in 1980. As for the spread to Central and South America, it was introduced to Costa Rica through CIRAD (the Centre de Coop é Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le D é veloppement) in 1991 under the guidance of breeding expert Benoit Bertrand. The first Central American country to formally recognize Java beans was Panama, while Bolivia was introduced through Nicaragua.

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