FOOD FUNDA: Varieties Of Coffee

Sunday 8 July 2012

Varieties Of Coffee

varieties of coffee

Coffee production in the country began in 1779 in the Meseta Central which had ideal soil and climate conditions for coffee plantations.Coffea arabica first imported to Europe through Arabia, whence it takes its name, was introduced to the country directly from Ethiopia. In the nineteenth century, the Costa Rican government strongly encouraged coffee production, and the industry fundamentally transformed a colonial regime and village economy built on direct extraction by a city-based elite towards organized production for export on a larger scale. The government offered farmers plots of land for anybody who wanted to harvest the plants. The coffee plantation system in the country therefore developed in the nineteenth century largely as result of the government's open policy, although the problem with coffee barons did play a role in internal differentiation, and inequality in growth.