Ethiopian coffee has always been named after Heirloom/Ethiopian native species. In fact, this does not refer to a specific variety, but collectively refers to Ethiopian coffee native species. Ethiopia is the origin of Arabica coffee. There are thousands of coffee varieties planted here. There are so many varieties. Maybe you have passed the village and they have different coffee varieties, so it is not difficult to identify the varieties.
Speaking of which, have you paid attention to the list of winners of the Ethiopian COE in the past year?
The coffee varieties in
are no longer Heirloom, but 74158, 74110, tin card and so on. These precise varieties also prove that the mystery of Ethiopian coffee has been slowly unraveled, and the native species of Ethiopia have also begun to be subdivided into different varieties.
About the introduction of 74158, it was mentioned in our previous article, and interested friends can also learn about it!
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So what is 74110?
We have to mention two institutions here: the Gemma Agricultural Research Center (JARC) and the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute (EBI). They have been committed to the protection and research of Ethiopian Arabica coffee, especially JARC, and actively select and cultivate coffee suitable for cultivation.
In the 20th century, Ethiopia has implemented a series of programs to find and test coffee varieties.From 1973 to 1975, the Jimma Agricultural Research Center (JARC) established by the Ethiopian government in Jimma collected 639 coffee tree samples from various producing areas in Ethiopia, and after repeated tests and experiments, 13 were selected. Varieties with good disease resistance. 74110 is one of these 13 strains, which was selected from the original mother tree in Bishari village, Metu province, illuababora region of Oromia, after studying its disease resistance and yield, JARC in 1979 The breed was released at the time. The trees of 74110 are short and compact, with small leaves and small cherry fruit.
is named 74110 because [74] refers to 1974, when it was selected, and [110] is its number.
