Our field visits often bring us to little visited places, and sometimes we come across some well-hidden secret beauties. Like last month. We were asked by a village in HongHe Prefecture to perform a prospection. At the moment, the villagers only grow sugar cane and rice and they are interested in introducing coffee as a new cash crop. Apparently there had already been an attempt to grow coffee in the past, as we discovered two coffee trees in the village. Lack of knowledge probably lead to it not succeeding and we will now assist the villagers with training and technical assistance. The coffee trees, however, were not our biggest surprise. That was the beautiful, ancient courtyard in the village. The traditional housing was still inhabited, though, as the township is rather remote and the road to get there is very bad, there are no tourists.
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AuthorI wouldn't be surprised to find out I was born with a passion for coffee. For the life of me, I can't remember not loving coffee. And by that, I don't just mean drinking it, but everything involved from its cultivation over the processing to the final product that is my loyal companion throughout the day. Archives
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