Do you know the history of Yemeni coffee? what is the variety of Yemeni mocha coffee beans?

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Mocha coffee in Yemen is famous all over the world. Mocha is a Yemeni port and the first coffee trading port in the world. People talk about mocha coffee when they talk about Yemeni coffee. Three hundred years ago, Yemen was the world's only exporter of coffee, which meant that at that time 100% of the world's coffee came from Yemen.

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Located on the edge of the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen represents the origin of Arab civilization and is one of the oldest civilizations in the East. In the 8th century BC, the collapse of the Malibu Dam (now located in eastern Yemen) caused a large number of people in the region to leave Yemen. Indigenous peoples spread northward and settled in 23 Arabic-speaking countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Among Arabs, Yemen is called the "place of origin".

"the Yemeni coffee, the precious pearls, the precious wealth hanging from the trees."

When it comes to the countries most associated with coffee in the world, no one may think of Yemen. But coffee is closely related to the history of Yemen. It is rumored that coffee was first drunk as a drink in Yemen in 1450. Local mysterious Sufi followers drink the drink to help them stay awake during overnight prayers and meditations. As followers of Islam, through regular pilgrimages to Mecca, Yemeni pilgrims spread coffee to other parts of the world, eventually reaching Istanbul in the Ottoman Turkish Empire, home to the world's first cafe.

With the popularity of coffee around the world, Yemen began to prosper. As early as the beginning of the 18th century, almost all of the country's income came from coffee exports, and all the world's coffee came from Yemen. However, with the explosive growth in demand for coffee, coffee importing countries are looking for other sources of coffee beans. In the early 18th century, the Dutch East India Company began to grow smuggled Yemeni coffee in Ceylon and Java and eventually produced and exported their own coffee beans. The French quickly followed suit by growing Yemeni coffee on the island of Reunion.

Farmers and slaves in these countries were forced to grow and sell coffee beans for the Dutch and French East India companies at exploited prices. This marks the beginning of the relationship between coffee trade and state-owned commercial capitalism. In the following centuries, with the industrial revolution in Europe and the rise of bourgeois society, slavery, the growth and cultivation of coffee have always been inseparable. By 1800, Yemen accounted for only 6% of the world's coffee production.

The decline in Yemeni coffee continues to this day due to a number of factors, including a decline in the price of coffee from specialty to interchangeable products and internal competition from growing the drug Qat. Because of the instability of the world coffee market, coffee prices are often low, and Yemeni coffee farmers find that they can benefit more from growing chat grass, and most of them reluctantly turn to growing chat grass. According to 2012 data, Yemeni coffee production is only 19800 tons, while Chategrass production is 190800 tons. In a few days, Yemeni coffee production accounted for less than 0.1% of the world's total coffee production.

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