New Coffee Plantings in China Led by Starbucks in Puer Region
It made global headlines when Starbucks last year announced it was going to get involved in coffee production with the first farm to be set up in China and it’s…
Category Archives: Origin Focus
China’s Booming Coffee Culture Set To Use All Home Grown Beans
If every one of the 1.35 billion Chinese people would drink one cup of coffee per day the world coffee market would collapse … at least so go the popular…
ORIGIN FOCUS: COLOMBIA – A Leader In The World Of Coffee!
Colombia has for years been recognized as one of the world’s most important coffee growing countries. For decades Colombia ranked firmly as the second largest producing nation in the world…
Colombia’s Biggest Coffee Provinces Are Antioquia And Huila
Coffee remains one of the most important economic activities in Colombia. An estimated 563,000 producer families depend on growing coffee for their main or partial daily survival and coffee is…
The Onset Of Colombia’s Coffee Crisis Started In 2008
When the climate crisis started in Colombia it was here in Antioquia that signs of the severe impact of erratic weather first started to show in the 2008-09 mitaca crop,…
What Caused The Real Production Crisis For Colombia’s Coffee Growers?
The crisis in the Colombian coffee lands would continue to get worse, with production in the next 2009-10 year falling to 8.098 million bags – one of the smallest crops…
Rust And Climate Change Worst Culprits In Colombia Coffee Crisis
The outbreak of rust in Nariño and Huila would continue to impact the coffee production in Colombia negatively in the next few years and production failed to recover to levels…
Colombia: Over 200 Years Of Coffee History Since First Tree Planted In 1784
Some historical accounts suggest that coffee cultivation first started in Colombia around the year 1730 after being brought into the country via Venezuela from Martinique, but most coffee historians agree…
Colombia’s Unique Coffee Renovation And Crop Recovery
Colombia is one of the only coffee producing countries where most even tiny small-holder growers regularly have renovated and replanted trees, with a majority of the soils seeing a complete…
Colombia Is One Of Few Countries With Two Coffee Crops A Year
Colombia is one of less than a handful of coffee producing countries in the world that has two crops during the year, the main harvest that starts with the international…
