Eju.tv: The 2024 Specialty Coffee Association of Japan (SCAJ) World Specialty Coffee Conference and Exhibition, held from October 9 to 12 at Tokyo Big Sight in the Japanese capital, showcased Bolivian specialty coffee, represented by the Association of Organic Coffee and Cocoa Producers of Bolivia (ASO RUBEN). The association, which brings together around 47 national…
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Bolivia has coffee grown at high altitude, no doubt!
El Diario reports: In La Paz airport: Manufacturers offer Café de Altura [Coffee grown at high altitude] Producers of La Paz on Monday [10/27/2014] inaugurated the first service of Café Altura [high altitude coffee] at the International Airport of El Alto in order to provide domestic and foreign visitors the best organic and quality product….
Bolivian coffee production 101
An interesting article written by Alejandra Sanjines in Los Tiempos: The Bolivian coffee production The production and export of coffee in our country is a topic that deserves attention because it is one of the main generic products that are traded on the world market, whose production is usually done in tropical zones. Currently more…
TIME reports: Bolivian Coca Farmers Switch to Coffee Beans
This is from TIME, Jean Friedman-Rudovsky reporting: For millennia, farmers in Bolivia’s breathtaking Yungas Valley terraced their steep mountainsides for coca. They grew just enough of the leaf, which is sacred to the indigenous peoples of South America’s Andes region, to make tea and chew to combat high-altitude exhaustion. That changed in the 20th century,…
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