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El Salvador Coffee Flavor Description Grind Characteristics Variety Producing Area Manor Taste Introduction

Published: 2024-11-09 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/11/09, The chaos caused by the coffee variety civil war affected economic development, but ironically allowed the ancient coffee varieties to be preserved. The situation was too chaotic for Salvadoran coffee producers to catch up with the trend of coffee variety renewal in Central and South America. El Salvador produces 100% Arabica coffee, of which 68% is Bourbon (Coffea arabica var. bourbon),29% Pa

coffee varieties

The chaos caused by the civil war affected economic development, but ironically allowed the ancient coffee species to remain. The situation was too chaotic for Salvadoran coffee farmers to catch up with the trend of coffee variety renewal in Central and South America.

El Salvador produces 100% Arabica coffee, of which 68% is Bourbon (Coffea arabica var. Bourbon), 29% Pacas, the rest include Pacamara, Caturra, etc.

Pacas, first discovered in Salvador in 1949, is a natural hybrid of Bourbon and Catula.

Pacamara, an artificially selected variety of pacas and maragogipe (or maragogype), was first bred in 1958 (one said 1954). Pacamara is a rare excellent variety under artificial breeding. Green is better than blue. It perfectly inherits the advantages of the mother plant. It has the excellent taste of pacas and the big size of malagogipe. Pacamara species are thought to be the result of the pursuit of larger Arabica species.

coffee planting

Most are grown by small farmers. Classification of Salvadoran farmers: (1 htct= 105 mu = 10000 square meters)

Small farmer, small producer, area less than 7.0 hect;

Medium farmer, medium producer, area between 7.0-70hect;

Large farmer, large producer, area greater than 70hect.

Farmers use traditional planting methods with almost 100% shade.

coffee harvest

Hand picked.

The harvest season lasts from October to March. The peak occurs between November and February.

coffee processing

Water washing treatment, sun drying

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