Colombia coffee beans castillo coffee beans is what kind of varieties

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Front Street-Castillo Coffee Variety Profile

Catula was a very common variety in Colombia since the 1950s because it produced more than the traditional iron pica or bourbon. However, while giving more yield, coffee is equally susceptible to leaf rust and other diseases. Castillo was introduced in 2005 and its name comes from researcher Jaime Castillo, which is actually a trademark of Cenicafe, an improvement on the Colombia variety that has become the most cultivated variety in Colombia.

The Colombia variety was developed from Cenicafe through five generations between 1968 and 1982 and is the result of a successful cross between Katilla and Timor. Colombia developed before the country's first outbreak of coffee leaf rust in 1983. Although the new varieties have helped the country's farmers weather the crisis, Cenicafe suspects outbreaks of other diseases and new diseases are on the way. They continued to work toward improvement, and the emergence of coffee berry disease (CBD) in the early 2000s accelerated the development of research methods. This painstaking effort resulted in Tabi and Castillo varieties.

Castillo was officially presented to coffee growers in May 2005 as a symbol of FNC's "Colombia without rust" program. The project aims to restore and update the production of high-quality coffee in the country.

Cenicafe has also developed sub-varieties from Castillo with the added benefit of being particularly adapted to specific agronomic and climatic differences in different regions of the country. Seven varieties have been produced by Castillo so far, each retaining the main characteristics of their acquired progeny (Caturra cup quality and small size and Timor resistance to coffee mixed leaf rust) and adding one or more new characteristics in each for adaptation to specific climate changes in Colombia. These varieties are:Castillo Naranjal, La Trinidad, El Rosario, Pueblo Bello, Santa Barbara, El Tambo and aicito.

Castillo and its daughter varieties are characterized by high yields, resistance to leaf rust and other diseases, and "dwarf" trees that can be planted at high densities, resulting in higher yields per hectare. Castillo plants also have slightly larger fruits and show greater resistance to pests and insects, such as the coffee drill beetle (broca), which is common in Latin America.

Although Castillo appears to offer a viable (for now) solution to the coffee leaf rust crisis in Colombia, there has been disagreement over the quality of coffee cups. Many in the coffee industry vilify Castillo for the quality of the coffee cup (especially when compared to Caturra). However, recent research conducted by the Catholic Relief Services Frontier Project shows that these assumptions are often untenable in blind speculation. Although the two cups showed different characteristics, they did not show statistically significant differences in average scores on the test. The initial conclusion (though it is still early) is that while the two are not interchangeable, one is not necessarily "better" than the other.

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