Coffee producing areas in Honduras introduce how Honduran coffee is treated.

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Front Street Coffee introduces Honduran Coffee

Honduras is a mountainous country in Central and North America, bordering the Caribbean Sea to the north, the Gulf of Fonseca in the Pacific Ocean to the south, Nicaragua and El Salvador to the east and south, and Guatemala to the west. More than 3/4 of the territory are mountains and plateaus. Mountains extend from west to east, inland for lava plateaus, multi-mountain valleys, coastal plains. Tropical climate, coastal plain belongs to tropical rain forest climate.

Honduran coffee comes from El Salvador. Coffee production was lukewarm at first until the frost in Brazil in 1975. At that time, Brazil was badly hit and coffee production plummeted, while Honduras took the opportunity to "take the top". Coffee production soared from 500000 bags to 1.8 million bags and was ransacked. It was only after that that coffee production in Honduras really developed. Since 2011, coffee production has surpassed Guatemala to become the largest coffee producer in Central America.

There are six major coffee producing areas in Honduras, mainly located in the western and southern regions of Copan, Opalaca, Montecillos, Comayagua, Agalta Tropical and El Paraiso. The average height of fine coffee is more than 1100 meters above sea level. 69 per cent of the coffee grown in these areas is HG and 12 per cent is SHG,19% and CS.

High-quality coffee in Honduras is treated with water. Generally, it is necessary to soak first. When soaking, the defective fruit will surface and can be discarded. Then put the good fruit into the fruit peeling machine and peel off the peel with the rotating force of the machine. Peeled fruits are screened by machines to select fruits of high quality. Usually the bigger the fruit, the better the maturity.