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All the coffee trees planted in Costa Rica are Arabica coffee trees. through improvement, the quality of coffee beans is better and more stable. in order to facilitate picking, coffee trees are kept at a height of about 2 meters through continuous pruning. The coffee that people eat is the taste of the seeds in the fruit that are brewed in water.

After picking raw coffee beans, you must remove the peel, pulp, seed film and sun exposure before the seeds (that is, coffee beans) can be roasted. Part of the process can be replaced by machines, and the speed of coffee production increases a lot. However, there is no machine to do coffee picking, so you must use manual labor.

Costa Rican coffee has full particles, ideal acidity and unique strong flavor. Costa Rica's coffee industry, originally controlled by the Costa Rican Coffee Industry Company (ICAFE), has been taken over by the official Coffee Committee (Oficinale Cafe). Among the exported coffee, those products that are considered to be of substandard quality are colored with blue vegetable dyes and then transferred back to China for sale. Coffee consumed domestically (dyed blue or undyed) accounts for about 10% of total production, and local per capita coffee consumption is twice that of Italy or the United States.

In 1825, the Costa Rican government implemented a tax exemption policy. In 1832, the local government promulgated a law that "there is land for growing coffee", meaning that coffee farmers can own the land directly if they grow coffee on any land that is not occupied. As soon as this example comes out, it encourages many people to grow coffee and promote the development of coffee. (it can also indirectly explain why most of Costa Rican coffee comes from private estates.)

It is conceivable that when there are more products, the quality will become different and affect the competitiveness. So in order to improve the quality and value of coffee, at the beginning of the 20th century, the government enacted legislation that coffee farms or plantations in Costa Rica could only grow coffee in Arabica, so as to enhance their competitiveness. This helps to understand why Costa Rican coffee is now so superior: coffee from Costa Rica is all Arabica, and we can never find Robusta.

Subsequently, in 1948, the Costa Rican government established an exclusive coffee department (that is, the Costa Rican coffee industry company ICAFE:Institutodel Caf é de Costa Rica. It has been taken over by the official Coffee Committee Oficinadel Caf é), mainly coaching the manor from planting, post-processing to the improvement of the sales system. The place is also very careful in handling coffee for export.

Among the exported coffee, coffee beans that are considered to be of substandard quality will be colored with blue plant dyes and then returned to domestic sales. Today, about 1/3 of Costa Rica's population is engaged in coffee or coffee-related industries, and per capita coffee consumption is twice that of Italy or the United States. From various policies, we can see that the government's support for the coffee industry has indirectly made Costa Rica's coffee better and more competitive than other countries.

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