Videos about coffee farming in East Timor, the Timorese culture, and just cruising down the mountain roads …
The first video below is just a series of clips around the mountainous coffee areas of East TimorTimor-Leste (East Timor) is a tiny island between Australia and Sulawesi, annexed by Indonesia and liberated in a referendum several years ago. Small scale coffee farming was jump-started..., mostly driving around trying not to get too lost.
Sometimes it’s the “getting there” part of the trip that gives you the context for where you are going. In Timor Leste, it’s the dry lowlands, the lack of good roads, the distance between seemingly near towns, things that help you understand the coffee industry here.
And more than that it’s the history of these people, colonized by the Portuguese, largely ignored as a colony in terms of advancement and support for the people, and then the brutal conflict with IndonesiaUSDA is (obviously) the United States Department of Agriculture. USDA also had coffee plant breeding programs in the past and one variety they distributed to Indonesia and was... and the Indonesian military machine. There has been tremendous adversity here, and there is tremendous vibrancy in the culture too.
The second Timor video below has more coffee information! “Tall coffee in Timor”.
They call the varietyA botanical variety is a rank in the taxonomic hierarchy below the rank of species and subspecies and above the rank of form (form / variety / subspecies... Moka, and I was under the impression it was a pure arabicaArabica refers to Coffea Arabica, the taxonomic species name of the genus responsible for around 75% of the worlds commercial coffee crop.: Arabica refers to Coffea Arabica, the..., but it seems to have robustaAteng is a common name for Catimor coffees widely planted in Sumatra and other Indonesia isles.: Ateng, with several subtypes, is a common name for Catimor coffees widely... genetics in it too, while also not being the original Hibrido de TimorHibrido de Timor abbreviated HdT is the interspecies hybrid of C. Arabica and C. Canephora (Robusta) that was found in Timor Leste in the 1940s. This was presumed..., as I found out later (years after making the video in 2016)! – T.O.
