China Hong Kong can also produce fine coffee?! IT practitioners use expertise to grow kadura coffee

As young people with limited wallet thickness want to achieve complete coffee freedom is not an easy task, coffee roasting and coffee brewing, in the eyes of many people is a very handsome thing, but in the face of coffee planting, people still imagine the scene facing upside down. Even so, in order to drink a cup of coffee to their satisfaction, more young people began to wake up and embarked on the road of growing coffee.

Coffee is a tropical cash crop, which is generally grown between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Cancer, while Hong Kong is in the area of the "coffee gold belt". Coffee workshops have reported that Arabica coffee is grown in China not only in Yunnan Province, but also in Taiwan Province. Now even Hong Kong has areas where Arabica coffee is grown.

Mike, a 42-year-old IT worker, quit his job in 2019 to grow fruits and vegetables and took over the management of coffee trees on the plantation (a peak of 20 coffee trees in 2020), according to Hong Kong media "East net". In the first year, the harvest of coffee beans was only 3 kilograms, but in the second year, the harvest of coffee beans increased only slightly.

In the face of a complete coffee trading chain, coffee growers often get the lowest profit in the whole trading chain, and sometimes even lose money. When coffee beans are converted into a cup of coffee, the value of coffee will be truly reflected.

Mike is well aware of the above gory facts, so from the beginning, he did not focus on selling coffee beans, but focused on coffee treatment, which is expected to develop the local flavor of Hong Kong coffee and promote coffee culture.

In addition to coffee beans, coffee peels and coffee leaves are crops of economic value. In addition to being used for brewing coffee, it can also be used for making tea and mixing wine.

The most impressive thing about Hong Kong is that everything is expensive. In a place like Hong Kong, it is not easy to find a suitable place to grow coffee. In order to grow coffee, Mike makes full use of the knowledge and technology he has learned in the field of IT. He even designed a machine to record the temperature and humidity changes in the planting environment at every moment.

According to reports, the Kaddura coffee trees in this plantation are planted in the shade of the river, and some taller plants next to them bring natural shade to the coffee trees, so that the coffee will not taste bad because of overexposure. Some of the fallen branches and leaves provide nutrients for the coffee tree.

Due to the lack of coffee trees and the harvest of coffee fruits, the managers of the plantation focused on coffee treatment rather than production. In addition to using familiar sun and water washing, perilla leaves, coriander, beer, plum wine, common salt or sea salt will be used for different anaerobic fermentation.

Interestingly, everyone thinks that coffee fermented with perilla leaves will have the taste of perilla leaves, but the fact is that coffee not only does not have the taste of perilla leaves, some special flavors are even more prominent.

However, if you want to grow good coffee, you also need the right altitude. According to the "boutique Coffee Science", Arabica coffee beans are generally grown at an altitude of more than 1000 meters to produce a good flavor. However, according to Baidu Encyclopedia, the highest point in Hong Kong is Tai Mo Shan, which is 958 meters above sea level. The output of this Hong Kong-made coffee is so rare that it is difficult to taste it.

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