Juria, Champion Among Coffee Variants
Hunting for coffee on Flores Island is incomplete without a visit to the Colol Highlands in East Manggarai regency. This is where local coffee farmers cultivate the renowned Juria coffee, said to be the oldest coffee variant in Greater Manggarai.
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Agustinus Songsi, a coffee farmer in Uluwae village of East Poco Ranaka district, East Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara, shows a regenerating stump of a Juria coffee tree on Saturday (10/2/2018). The Juria variety, which was first cultivated about 50 years ago, is now rarely found because they have been replaced with the Arabica and Robusta varieties.
Hunting for coffee on Flores Island is incomplete without a visit to the Colol Highlands in East Manggarai regency. This is where local coffee farmers cultivate the renowned Juria coffee, said to be the oldest coffee variant in Greater Manggarai.
“The Juria coffee is mostly cultivated on the slopes because it is one of the oldest coffee varieties cultivated in Colol,” coffee farmer Agustinus Songsi, 45, said in Uluwae village of East Poco Ranaka district, East Manggarai district. He was accompanying Kompas on Saturday (10/2/2018) at the Juria plantation, located 1,200-1,400 meters above sea level.