Tainan has become an important coffee producing area in Taiwan! The Development and Future trend of Coffee in Taiwan

There are many kinds of fruits in Taiwan, such as Taiwan pineapple, Sakyamuni fruit, strawberry, lotus fog and so on. The reputation of Taiwan fruit kingdom is not in vain. In addition to fruit, coffee is also produced in Taiwan, and coffee culture is also very popular here.

In paragraph 21 of the "Fufan Mountain Rehabilitation Regulations," the document information shows that Taiwan has tried to encourage mountain people to grow coffee. In 1877, Fujian Governor Ding Richang drafted the "Regulations on the Rehabilitation of the Mountain", one of which listed the first time to guide the aborigines to plant "tea, cotton, tung tree, sandalwood, hemp, beans, coffee...".

The original text of the "Fufan Kaishan Aftermath Regulations" reads as follows:

In addition to planting taro and millet for self-sufficiency, the people who rely on the mountains do not plant much fertile soil, so that they are poor in the end. We should select local people and appropriate messengers, and bring people who are good at planting to various social education to plant the law. He ordered them to plant tea, cotton, tung trees, sandalwood, hemp, beans and coffee on wind-proof hillsides, so that they would have surplus profits to make, no longer hunt for business, and gradually become tame. All kinds of seeds were collected by the gentry at the county bureau. After harvest, the cost will be paid annually to show compassion. How many of them are planted somewhere? How many occurred the following year? How many harvests? Order the gentry to inspect the books and reports, and determine the rewards and punishments according to their effectiveness.

The history of coffee cultivation in Taiwan Province is mainly in 1884, when Britain brought coffee to Taiwan and tried to plant it in the Three Gorges area in northern Taiwan. Coffee was first cultivated on a large scale in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period in the 1930s. The Japanese set up agricultural organizations in Hengchun, Chiayi and Shilin to actively introduce and cultivate coffee, and coffee gradually became an important special cash crop. In 1941, coffee production in Taiwan Province reached an all-time high. After World War II, however, Taiwan's coffee industry suffered.

Driven by the wave of fine coffee, more and more Taiwanese consumers like coffee drinks. The coffee industry in Taiwan Province has revived again. In 2009, Alishan Coffee in Taiwan won the eleventh place of "Best Coffee of the Year" of the American Fine Coffee Association. This is the first coffee producing area in Asia to enter the gold list in recent years. This also shows that the quality of coffee beans in Taiwan has been greatly improved.

The Tainan City government has also sent coffee beans grown in Dongshan to the Coffee Quality Association of the United States for certification over the past eight years, according to Coffee Finance Network. According to the Tainan City government, by 2020,21 batches of coffee beans in Dongshan City have scored more than 80 points and obtained certificates issued by the American Coffee Quality Association. Dongshan's coffee beans have been promoted to the fine coffee category.

Coffee in Taiwan Province is mainly planted in Tainan City in the south. In Dongshan District of Tainan City, the altitude range is 500-800 meters. The temperature and soil quality are very suitable for coffee planting. At present, a large number of coffee trees are planted near Dongshan City. According to the data of Agricultural Bureau of Tainan City, Dongshan City has 570,000 hectares of coffee farms, covering an area of about 53.9 hectares and an annual output of 730 tons. Dongshan City has become the largest coffee-producing area in Taiwan Province.

Fruits such as longan and oranges are also planted near Dongshan Mountain, so Dongshan coffee has a faint fruit aroma after being lightly roasted. Both Taiwan coffee and Yunnan coffee are located in the golden belt of coffee cultivation. These two coffee producing areas are relatively famous coffee producing areas in China.

With the popularity of the boutique coffee wave, more and more coffee consumers are seeking higher coffee taste, and Taiwanese coffee farmers are also beginning to focus on producing boutique coffee. Today, with the development of Dongshan Coffee, coffee has become a part of the daily life of many Tainan residents. The Tainan City Agriculture Bureau also said that it would vigorously promote Tainan Coffee and plan to build a leisure park in Dongshan City to attract consumers from all over Taiwan to taste Dongshan Coffee.

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