Bourbon Coffee Variety introduction | how about El Salvador Tex Tekisic coffee?

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Bourbon is a variety of coffee trees, belonging to a branch of Arabica species. It is named according to the color of coffee fruit when it is ripe, such as red, yellow, orange, pink bourbon and so on. Among them, the output of orange bourbon is less, while that of pink bourbon is very little.

The name bourbon comes from the island of Reunion, and the French made three attempts to introduce coffee from Yemen to the island of Bourbon (now Reunion) in 1708, 1715 and 1718; but it was coffee that was transplanted for the second and third times.

In 1841, a French missionary established a church on the French island of Reunion. After leaving the island of Reunion, he set up new churches in several African countries, such as Zanzibar, Bagmoyo, St. Augustine, and Bra, and sowed coffee from the island of Reunion in each church. From then on, there was "bourbon coffee" on the African continent.

Ticks (Tekisic)

A variety selected in El Salvador, and known for excellent cup quality in the highest altitudes.

One of the varieties bred by Salva number is famous for its excellent quality at the highest altitude.

Is the Salvadoran Coffee Institute (ISIC) breeding low varieties. Breeding began in 1949 and was released in 1977. The process of selecting Tex low is a group selection process, which is to select a group of people for advantages, and these groups have low seeds for a new generation, and then repeat them.

Tex is an early-maturing variety with high quality under ideal conditions. Its low yield is higher than that of ordinary low bourbon at an altitude of 9000-1500 meters. But it has no resistance to the main diseases and insect pests of coffee.

The name tekisic comes from the meaning that tekiti,tekiti means "work" in Navat. It took the Salvadoran Coffee Institute (ISIC) 30 years to develop a variety, so it was a lot of work, so it was named Titian.

(tekisic). It is widely cultivated in El Salvador, and its common bourbon accounts for 75% of the country's output. It is also an important variety in Guatemala.

As a result of the breeding of Titan bourbon, its history is actually the history of bourbon, which is one of the important varieties of Arabica.

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