Introduction to the growth environment of fine coffee, raw beans, coffee, cherries, coffee beans

Raw coffee beans are the seeds of coffee trees. It is the wealth hidden in coffee cherries (coffee berries) that people usually call coffee cherries. They are mistakenly called "beans" because they are similar to the beans we usually see, but they are actually the seeds of coffee. Usually there are two flat oval coffee beans in the coffee berries, and a small number of coffee berries contain only one coffee raw bean, just like there is only one grain of rice in the rice. This kind of bean is called Peaberry. These raw coffee beans usually contain endosperm.

The spread of coffee beans originated in Ethiopia, about 850 in the Christian era. It then spread throughout the Arabian Peninsula, and coffee was not really documented until the 900th year of the Christian era. At that time, the Yemenis carefully guarded the coffee in order to prohibit the outflow of coffee. However, some coffee saplings are smuggled to the Netherlands and planted in greenhouses.

Coffee trees are usually planted in rows a few inches apart. Some coffee farmers grow coffee under other high cash crops, or on the other side of the mountain, because coffee requires a specific growing environment. Arabica coffee trees can only grow at 15-24 ℃, while Robusta coffee trees can grow at 30 ℃. The average annual rainfall is 150-300mm. In the fruit growth stage, a large amount of rainfall is conducive to growth, but in the fruit ripening stage, a small amount of rainfall is better. Because the climate in the northern and southern hemispheres is different, the harvest time of coffee beans is also different. In some places, coffee beans are harvested all the year round.