Coffee Tree planting knowledge Coffee Tree growing Environment

Coffee gives the public the impression that it is black, bitter, and can not sleep with a feeling of excitement. The color of coffee beans we see in coffee shops is tea brown, which is roasted coffee beans, and the color of coffee is amber.

Coffee comes from coffee beans, which in turn are harvested and processed from the fruits of coffee trees.

Coffee trees grow in tropical or subtropical countries with the equator as the center and between 25 degrees north and south latitude, which are called coffee belts. At present, there are more than 60 coffee producing countries. Coffee producing areas are distributed in South America, Central America, West Indies, Asia, Africa, Arabia, South Pacific Ocean and Oceania. In terms of output, Brazil ranks first in the world in terms of output, accounting for about 30%, and Central and South America with Colombia as the center accounts for 60%, accounting for about 10%. Africa and Arabia account for about 30%, while the remaining 10% are distributed in Asia and most islands.

Coffee tree is an evergreen tree belonging to the family Akana. It is a tropical plant. It is not cold resistant. Most of it is longer than the area with an elevation of 300-400 meters. It is also cultivated in the highland with an elevation of 2000-2500 meters. However, the quality planted on the hillside above 1500 meters is better. Coffee tree is most suitable for growing in an environment with an average temperature of about 20℃, annual precipitation of 1500-2000 mm, strong soil permeability and suitable sunshine. Coffee is afraid of frost and cold winter, and must not be planted on frosty heights. Generally wild coffee trees can grow to about 8 meters, planted in coffee gardens to ensure the quality of coffee beans, easy management and easy to harvest, generally cut to 2 meters high, coffee beans after sowing 3 to 5 years to start fruit, 5 to 20 years for the harvest period, a coffee tree can receive about 3 to 5 kg of coffee fruit per year.

At present, the main coffee tree species are Arabica, Robusta and Liberica. Arabica species produced in Arabica (now referred to as Ethiopia) quality of the top three species, accounting for two-thirds of the world's coffee production, coffee beans were oval flat, characterized by aroma and better quality; Robusta species produced in the Congo, Africa, disease resistance, high temperature resistance, fruit slightly smaller, accounting for 30% of the world's production, bitter but not sour, aroma is not very good, most made into mixed coffee; Liberica is grown in Liberia, Africa. It is characterized by a light and bitter taste and poor quality and yield.

Coffee beans are fresh and green coffee beans obtained by removing red pulp and peel and silver skin from coffee fruits. Coffee fruit structure is composed of skin, pulp, endocarp, silver skin, seeds. The shape is oval, usually coffee fruit is composed of two oval seeds opposite to each other on the side of the joint is flat, so called flat beans, but there is also a round seed composed of round beans its taste is not different.

Coffee flower color is white, jasmine fragrance, about three to four days to tune Xie, flowers were 5 petals, five male and one female. And its leaf tip is more pointed, two relative groups, leaf dark green, light green on the back, oval.

The higher the coffee beans grow, the higher the acidity, and the higher the price of coffee with the right acidity, such as Blue Mountain coffee, which is naturally balanced between acid, sweet and bitter, and full of flavor.

Coffee four flavors and one fragrance: aroma, bitterness, sourness, strong alcohol, sweetness, aroma are the life of coffee and the best performance of coffee production process and roasting technology.