There are two theories regarding the origin of the name “Papua”: One theory states that in 1526, the Portuguese, Meneses, sailed from Malacca to the Moluccas Islands, but the sea breeze blew the ship to an unnamed place, and people called this land “Papua”. Derived from the Malay word “tanah pepua”, which means “the land of curly-haired people”. Another theory is that in the early days, the Portuguese arrived at this place and asked the local residents what this place was, and the reply was “Papua”, so they used the racial name of Papua as the place name. The racial name originates from the Malay word “papuvah” (curly hair) or “pua-pua” (dark brown), referring to the hair and skin color of the main inhabitants of the island, the Papuans.
The New Guinea Island, also known as the Irian Island. Also known as the City of Crocodiles (the crocodile farming industry is extremely developed). Papua New Guinea, referred to as PNG, is the largest island country in the South Pacific, located in the eastern half of New Guinea, adjacent to Indonesia to the west and the Solomon Islands to the east. The southern part is plains and lowlands, the southeast coastal zone, the central part is the central mountain range, and the northern part is composed of several separate mountain ranges. It has a rich and unique flora and fauna ecology, with about 6,500 kinds of native plants and 380 kinds of native birds. The racial groups within the island do not intermarry, and it is not easy to integrate, giving rise to more than 700 languages, making it the country with the most language families in the world. PNG is located between the equator and 10 degrees south latitude, with dense tropical rainforests, volcanic rocks in the north, coastal marshes in the south, and a central plateau terrain with an altitude of 1,200 to 2,500 meters, which is a paradise for growing coffee.
The coffee planting model in Papua New Guinea
In 1892, Dutch seamen began to introduce coffee saplings to the Rigo area of Papua New Guinea for breeding and planting, and here officially began the historical chapter of coffee. The commercial production of coffee in Papua New Guinea only officially began in the 20th century. Although it started late, its unique volcanic rock soil, abundant and moderate rainfall, and primitive natural features together create an excellent growing place for coffee trees. By 1908, there were already 180 acres of land in Papua New Guinea where coffee was planted.
Among them, 95% of the coffee is the arabica variety. The local coffee yield is not large, and most of the coffee comes from small farms, mainly produced in the form of small-scale farming. Many farms open up land in the forest area, and some farms are in the deep forest, almost isolated from the world. The coffee in this country is grown at altitudes of 1,300 to 1,800 meters, so the quality is very high. Some small farmers will join local cooperatives to share the raw bean processing equipment of the cooperatives and reduce production costs.
In 1931, Papua New Guinea introduced the Typica variety from Jamaica for planting, which is of the same root blood as the famous Blue Mountain coffee and is the main coffee variety in the local area. The flavor of Typica is elegant, but its physique is weak, with low disease resistance, and it is prone to leaf rust. The front street coffee believes that the biggest feature of Typica coffee trees is that the top leaves are bronze-colored, and some people also call it “red-top coffee”. The Typica beans are larger, in the shape of a pointed cone circle or a thin pointed shape, which is different from the round body beans of the Bourbon variety. The Typica coffee has its unique quiet and clean flavor and balanced characteristics, with a high degree of clean taste in the mouth.
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