Introduction of high-quality and delicious Indonesian Java coffee flavor manor area characteristics of high-quality coffee beans

The most important island of Indonesia, the political, economic and cultural center of the country. It is about 970 kilometers from east to west and 160 kilometers from north to south, forming a narrow shape. It covers an area of 126000 square kilometers and has a population of about 124 million (2005 data). Mainly to mountains and hills, there are many volcanoes, there are 58 volcanic peaks above 1800 meters above sea level, of which 14 are above 3000 meters. Mount Semeru, the highest peak on the island, is located in the southeast of the island at 3676 meters above sea level. How wide the basins are in the mountains, many of which are the birthplaces of the ancient kingdoms of Indonesia and are still developed agricultural belts and town centers. The northern coast is an alluvial plain with many man-made ports; the south bank is steep and hilly. Earthquakes and tsunamis are frequent. The climate is hot, with high temperature and rainy weather all year round in the west and dry season in the east. The annual precipitation is about 1500 mm, less than 1000 mm in a few areas and more than 4000 mm in mountainous areas. There are many rivers, and the rivers entering the sea on the north bank are large, mainly Zhi Lion, Zhi Manu, Thoreau, Zitarong, Brantas and so on. The soil on the island is fertile, the natural conditions are good, and the forest cover rate is 23%. The land reclamation rate is 70%, which is the highest in the country. Mineral deposits include oil, coal, manganese, iron, gold, silver, phosphorus, sulfur, iodine and so on. Rice, corn, tea, peanuts, sucrose, kapok, cinchona cream and teak account for 60% to 90% of the national output, as well as rubber, coffee, oil palm, coconut and cocoa. Industries include oil refining, shipbuilding, machinery, metallurgy, rubber, textile, chemical industry, papermaking and so on. Traffic is well developed, with 60% to 70% of the mileage of roads and railways in the country.

Administratively, Java consists of three provinces, Wantan, West Java, Central Java and East Java, and two special zones, the capital of Greater Jakarta and Yogyakarta. Administratively, the special zone belongs to the provincial level.

The Dutch first spread coffee to Central and South America in the 1820s. Coffee spread from Dutch colonies to French Guiana and Brazil. during their colonization, the Dutch grew coffee in Malaba, India, and brought it to what is now Batavia in Indonesia-Java in 1699. The Dutch colonies once became the main supplier of coffee in Europe. At present, Indonesia is the fourth largest coffee exporter in the world.

Later, it was brought to Jamaica by the British. By 1925, growing coffee had become a tradition in Central and South America. In the same year, Hawaii also began to grow coffee, which is the only coffee producer in the United States, and Hawaiian coffee is one of the best coffee in the world.

At present, 90% of the coffee beans exported from Indonesia are Robusta beans, and only 10% are Arabica. Before 1920, due to a major environmental disaster, Indonesian coffee varieties were replaced with Robusta beans, so Mandarin coffee in Sumatra is a rare Arabica bean, a treasure before it was discovered in the Blue Mountains. Such authentic production of very little Indonesian coffee for Arabica, Arabica manor was destroyed by the leaf rust disaster at the end of the 18th century, at first, the Dutch tried to grow Liberian species, and later, began to plant Robusta species on a large scale.

At present, Arabica species account for about 10-15% of the coffee produced in Indonesia, and the rest is Robusta. Although Liberika species are produced, they are basically not included in the coffee trade.

Coffee harvest

There are usually two harvest seasons in Indonesia, the main harvest season (main crop) occurs from September to October, and the second harvest season (fly crop) occurs from May to June.

Arabica will be picked by hand, and workers who pick by hand will enjoy a minimum wage, on the basis of which there will be performance pay.

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Coffee treatment

Coffee from Java is traditionally washed.

Sumatra and Sulawesi are famous for their "wet planing" wet-hulled with Indonesian characteristics, known locally as Giling Basah.

The drying methods in coffee treatment vary according to the situation: high-priced bed drying in rain canopy, balcony drying, roadside drying and so on.