Java coffee

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Java coffee is a coffee produced on the island of Java.

As a synonym of coffee, "java" introduced itself in the seventeenth century when the Dutch had begun cultivation of coffee trees on the island of Java (part of the islands of Indonesia) and successfully exported it globally since. The coffee agricultural systems found on Java have changed considerably over time. A rust plague in the late 1880's killed off much of the plantation stocks in Sukabumi, before spreading to Central Java and parts of East Java. The Dutch responded by replacing the Arabica firstly with Liberica (a tough, but somewhat unpalatable coffee) and later with Robusta. Today Java's old colonial era plantations provide just a fraction of the coffee grown on the island.

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