Bolivian Coffee | planting History of Bolivian Coffee beans _ introduction of Bolivian Coffee Variety producing areas

The history of coffee cultivation in Bolivia is very rare. From the only literature, we can see that a large number of coffee beans were produced in Bolivia in 1980. Bolivia's coffee growing environment is very excellent. Bolivia is a landlocked country. It has a high altitude and a dry and wet climate. The coffee grown is very sweet and dry. However, the transportation is very inconvenient, resulting in the high cost of coffee transportation and meagre profits. Bolivia has a small population, only 10 million people, and is very poor, the country's economy depends on minerals and natural gas and agriculture, the proportion of coffee is very small. And in recent years, more and more coffee farmers are switching from coffee to coca leaves, which are used to make drugs because the prices of coca leaves are stable and provide better protection for poor farmers. Then, with the high price of coffee in 2010, with the financial help of the United States and government and the promotion of anti-drug programs, many farmers returned to the coffee production industry, but then the international price of coffee fell again, causing farmers to go back to growing coca leaves.

The coffee producers in Bolivia are mainly cooperatives and are composed of individual coffee producing families.

Divided into three production areas, namely: Yungas, Santa Cruz, Beni.

Yungas is the main producing area in Bolivia, where 95% of the country's coffee beans are produced. The coffee beans produced here are widely praised in Europe and at high elevations, but their quality has been slowly declining in recent years. Because of the low altitude, the other two producing areas mostly grow some rice, wood and other crops, and grow very little coffee.