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How did the Sultan of Lumi, an ancient coffee variety that is little known, come into the public eye?

Published: 2024-11-03 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/11/03, Rume Sudan was discovered in the Rume Valley Valley of the Boma Plateau Plateau near the Ethiopian border in southeastern South Sudan in 1940. Codenamed RS-510, known to the coffee industry, it is basically a wild coffee variety, native to tropical African forests in the Marsabit Mountains, with brass leaves.

Rume Sudan was discovered in the Rume Valley Valley of the Boma Plateau Plateau near the Ethiopian border in southeastern South Sudan in 1940. Code name RS-510, known to the coffee industry, is basically a wild coffee variety, native to tropical African forests in the Marsabit Mountains, characterized by brass leaves.

Until 2015, the bean of Lumi Sudan received attention as the participating bean of the WBC champion Sasa.

The coffee variety of Lumi Sudan rarely appears in the eyes of the public. although it has strong disease resistance, due to its low yield, it is rarely planted on a large scale and is basically used for variety research and development. to increase the taste of coffee and improve disease resistance.

Sultan Lumi is also known to the coffee world by the code name RS-510, with brass leaves as its main feature. When breeders need to create new varieties of coffee, RS-510 is the best Arabica provenance. For example, varieties with high yield and poor flavor can usually get varieties with good flavor and good yield when mixed with RS-510, because the flavor of RS-510 is extremely amazing, but the disease resistance is common and the yield is very low.

Mixing RS-510 with higher-yielding varieties allows coffee farmers to have new hybrids that are high-yielding, disease-resistant and drinkable, using techniques developed by many well-known modern varieties such as Castillo, Centroamericano, or Colombia.

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