Coffee producing area Coffee introduction to St. Helena

Napoleon believed that the only good thing from the island was coffee.

St. Helena (St Helena) is located in the Atlantic Ocean, 2000 km from Africa and 3500 km from Brazil, with a population of about 5000. Of course, the island is famous because Napoleon was exiled after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and died on the island in 1821.

Coffee was first grown on the island of St. Helena in 1732 and was transported from Yemen on a ship called the Houghton. Although some other introduced plants have failed since the 1860s, coffee has taken root and flourished here.

The island also experienced a coffee improvement movement, where in the mid-1980s, David? David Henry began to devote himself to the development of the coffee industry on the island in order to produce the best quality coffee. Coffee trees on St. Helena are grown entirely on natural conditions, with no machinery, no tractors, and even miscellaneous trees that have been cut down to make room for new coffee trees are recycled.