THE ANATOMY OF COFFEE CULTIVATION ON THE PLANTATION – Harvesting Handpicking Strip-picking – Separating the Beans from the Fruit Pulp Wet Processing Dry Processing – The Main Coffee-Producing Countries – Coffee's Contribution to the Ecosystem With its matchless flavour, Jamaican "Blue Mountain" coffee is an important source of income for Jamaica and grows in a small region in the east of the island. Other countries may try to cultivate this famous and rare coffee and market it as "Blue Mountain", but the genuine article only grows in Jamaica. With its distinctive taste, "Blue Mountain" stands out from all the other coffees grown in the Caribbean. Thanks to its high quality, limited supply and rarity, "Blue Mountain" coffee is quite expensive. Unlike other varieties of coffee, real "Blue Mountain" coffee is stored and exported in barrels rather than sacks. Not overly acidic, it has a very light, nutty, semi sweet and smooth flavour, making it the world's most famous, most expensive, and most talked-about variety of coffee. In the 17-18th centuries, Western powers began to cultivate coffee in their colonies in Africa, South America and Asia. After independence, these former colonies continued to produce coffee and today export green coffee beans all over the world. Ethiopia (Africa) Kenya (Africa) Costa Rica (Central America) Guatemala (Central America) Jamaica (Caribbean) Brazil (South America) Colombia (South America) Hawaii (South Pacific) Sumatra-Indonesia (Southeast Asia) Java-Indonesia (Southeast Asia)
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