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Colombian Cauca Valley Coffee

1. Natural environment

Colombia straddles the northern and southern hemispheres, and most of the country's coffee-producing areas are located between 2 and 8 degrees north latitude. Coffee-producing areas are concentrated in the "three rivers and two rivers" area, that is, the part of the Andes (Cordillera Mountains) in Colombia. Colombia's rivers almost originate from the Andes. Most of the good coffee producing areas have high poster height (2600-3000 meters in the Colombian capital BOGOTA poster), fertile soil (Huilan volcano Nevado del huila, Jarera volcano Nevado del Galers) valley (Andes), rainforest, crisscross plateau, abundant precipitation (warm and humid air from the Pacific Ocean), high Andean mountains form a variety of micro-topographic climate. These natural conditions have provided Colombia with conditions conducive to coffee cultivation, both high yield and high quality about the time when Colombia began to grow coffee, which is more plausible that in 1723, coffee trees were brought into Colombia by missionaries to start planting (beside the point: coffee is spread by missionaries in many parts of the world, such as Yunnan). However, the rapid development of coffee cultivation in Colombia was at the end of the 19th century, when coffee was grown rapidly as a commodity crop in Colombia. By 1912, coffee beans became Colombia's largest export commodity, accounting for about 50% of Colombia's total exports.

Colombia is the world's third (and second) coffee producer and exporter, but there is no doubt that Colombia is the world's largest exporter of Arabica coffee and the largest exporter of washed beans. Such a large yield is due to Colombia's unique natural soil and water environment and scientific planting technology. The main varieties of Colombian coffee beans are Tibika, Bourbon, pointed Bourbon, Kaddura, Elephant Bean, Cabernet, Rosa, Moka and Pacamara. Among them, Kaddura, which is not well grown in Brazil, is the main variety of boutique coffee beans, while the improved variety Katiwen has good disease resistance because it has become the main variety of high-yield commercial coffee beans.

As we all know, in the coffee growing industry, the rainy season determines the coffee harvest season. Throughout Colombia, the main harvest season of Colombian coffee is from October to February of the following year, and the secondary harvest season is from April to September each year. It is generally believed that the quality of the main production season is better than that of the secondary production season.

Coffee cultivation in Colombia is mostly small farm planting, with an average of about 3000 coffee trees per coffee farm, mostly using mixed three-dimensional planting, that is, planting trees, bananas and other vegetation around coffee trees during the coffee tree seedling period. provide a cool and humid environment for the production of coffee trees.

FNC: the Colombian Coffee producers Association Federracion Nacional de Cafeteros, founded in 1927. Unlike the complex models managed by many departments in other countries, Colombian coffee production is entirely under the unified leadership of a FNC, which is unique in coffee producing countries. FNC was first established as a non-profit independent organization, and its funding depends on a unique tax on coffee exports, but after years of accumulation, and due to Colombia's large team of coffee producers. FNC currently manages more than 500000 coffee producers, and many political and national interference is inevitable. FNC has developed into a national association. In addition to managing the coffee production industry, FNC is also committed to rural road construction, medical center improvement, investment and helping local areas develop and improve social welfare. Therefore, in Colombia, FNC can be found in the production management of coffee beans, import and export trade norms, even customs entry and exit quarantine.