Coffee bean trees can also be grown in Japan! The first batch of Japanese-made coffee beans came out!

Growing coffee locally has been something that generations of Japanese have been pursuing. Due to topography, climate and other reasons, Japan's local natural environment is not suitable for growing coffee. The Japanese who also study coffee cultivation have turned to other places, such as Taiwan.

Although they keep falling down on the local cultivation of coffee, they do not give up because of this! Instead, they are constantly looking for areas with a relatively mild climate, and for the problem of too cold in winter, they have also adopted countless ways to avoid the cold, so that coffee trees can grow in a "climate suitable" environment. The emperor lives up to his painstaking efforts! They finally planted the coffee tree and bore fruit! Yamako Farm in Okayama City, Japan recently announced that their coffee trees have successfully blossomed and borne fruit, and said that the coffee fruit is still in the ripening stage. It is estimated that the first batch of native coffee beans in Japanese history will be harvested in February this year.

With the success of the harvest, the head of Yamanzi Farm also planned a "Japan Organic Coffee Project" Japanese coffee project. They say the project will provide coffee saplings and planting techniques for those who want to grow / study coffee in Japan, as well as recruiting more technical personnel to grow coffee on farms.

Okayama City, located in southern Japan, is an area with warm climate and long sunshine, so it is called "sunny country". At first, Yamanzi Farm did not study the cultivation of coffee. At first, they wanted to grow tropical crops such as pineapples, mangoes, papayas and bananas in Japan, so they introduced them into greenhouses. After some research, they really succeeded in producing papayas and bananas. With successful experience, farmers have set their sights on local coffee cultivation, which has failed many times.

-Kosuke Yamamoto and his coffee tree

Farmer Kosuke Yamamoto said that Japan, as the fourth largest coffee consumer, has done in-depth research on coffee roasting and coffee brewing, but coffee cultivation has not yet been successfully studied. Because the coffee tree is a plant that does not like long-term sunlight, and the Okayama area is an area with long sunshine, there will be a large number of solar panels at the top of the greenhouse, which can provide electricity for the greenhouse on the one hand and shade on the other.

For Japanese native coffee beans can be planted successfully, the greenhouse is only an auxiliary, mainly inseparable from their years of research on coffee cultivation. In addition to the most basic research on the cultivation of coffee varieties, climate, environment, water quality, soil and other crops, they are so delicate that they have also studied the varieties of earthworms. Different varieties of earthworms will have different effects on the soil, changing the acid-base degree of the soil. The degree of acidity and alkalinity of the soil will affect the growth of coffee fruit and the performance of coffee flavor.

Through this success, Mr. Yamamoto hopes to let more businessmen see the value of Japanese-made coffee and extend the planting technology to the rural areas of Honshu. If more people are involved in local coffee planting projects, coffee farm management will become a business that can create new industries and ensure human resources.

The Okayama coffee beans will be on display at Kansai Agricultural week in March 2022 and Tokyo Agricultural week in October 2022. In the future, the farm will also be opened to the public, so that more Japanese can learn about the cultivation of local coffee.

After all, no farmer wants to do business at a loss.

But this is just a bad test, maybe one day we will have a chance to taste the coffee beans made in Japan.

Photo Source: Yamako Farm official website

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