by Noah » December 5th, 2011, 8:42 am
The coffee industry in Hawaii has developed primarily in The Big Island. While there are 600 farms on this Island there are only 25 farms in Maui, Molokai, Oahu, and Kauai in total. All the coffee grown in the islands is Arabica and has been commercialized around the world under the label of the place of production making the Kona coffee the best known. As oppose to what consumers believe, there are no difference in the coffee grown in the different islands of Hawai. The difference refers to the island and regions within each island that the Arabica coffee is grown, such as: Kona, Kaua’I, Ka’anapali Maui, Haleakala Maui, Moloka’I, Waialua and macadamia Cream.
A significant boom period for Kona’s coffee occurred in the mid-1950’s. When world coffee prices went up and Kona farmer’s began seeing a surplus, the direct effect was to push many other farmers along the islands to begin growing coffee. Not until 1970, Kona’s coffee was successfully introduced in the domestic and international market as a “specialty good” being able to be sold at a higher price than that of the Brazilian, Colombian, Ivory Coast and Vietnamese.
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