Founded in 1990 by the government in the country Anacaf organization by providing the determination of standards in the production of Guatemalan coffee production also distinguish eight main regions of the country. These regions; Antigua, Acatenango, Atitlán, Cobán, Huehuetenango, Faijanes is Nuevo San Marcos & Orientea.
Among them are one of the best known and most popular of the Antigua coffee. Rich volcanic soil, low humidity, plenty of sunshine and cool nights characterized by extraordinary prepares an ideal environment for producing coffee. Antigua valley where the name of the region around the town of Agua, Fuego and Acatenango it is surrounded by three volcanoes called. Guatemala's Fuego, one of the three active volcanoes, adds the fresh powder of ash rich in minerals to Antigua's soil. volcanic pumice stones in the soil retains moisture, which helps balance the amount of Antigua's low rainfall.
Due to the high cup quality of Antigua of coffee a portion of the coffee producers in other regions in the 2000s tried to market their coffee they brought from their own region over Antigua this has caused a negative impact in terms of area. To prevent this, in 2000, AGA (Antigua Growers Association) certified can be traced establishment has created the Genuine Antigua Coffee and passed in front of this movement. Thus we can say that maintained the Antigua brand value and even increased.
Santa Rosa in Antigua large part of the production is located close to the Pacific Ocean in the region of Bourbon Coffee is composed of Caturra and Pache varieties. Pache and Typica is a kind of a natural mutation was first discovered in Guatemala.
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9. Guatemala is the largest worldwide manufacturer of coffee. Robusta producing countries when we took from these manufacturers can say Guatemala's 5th largest producer of Arabica coffee that country.
In 2011, rust disease problems occurred in Guatemalan coffee plants and he lost a close to 50% of the year section reserves. Until then, mainly Guatemala, a country that produces coffee for general consumption, the world experienced this situation as an opportunity to evaluate introducing new coffee seeds from many different regions has qualified kahvecilig weight.
He also lost by trees from the date of rust disease has left more attentive and better quality trees within farming. Overall consumption of coffee produced in the period was affected negative Guatemala coffee price fluctuations in the stock market. Avoid coffee began to hurt from time to time had to be sold below the cost of production and that the families of some of the families have migrated toward the children leave the production has migrated out of the country.
coffee sector after the measures taken in 2011, began to provide earnings again. They went with the intention to emigrate modern agriculture in London and America, marketing and business management training a new generation of families in the area, is the head of business by deciding to return to the country. As such, this translated into deals with intelligent methods crisis has paved the way for the upper levels of production quality and modern approach. This modern approach in Guatemala coffee in our inventory that we enjoy as I Kahve.co has enabled us to recognize new flavors after 2015-2016.
MUSTAFA MARHAN 17/4/2020
Mustafa Marhan 17/4/2020