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- East Timor: Where the Wild Coffee Grows
There is not a single Starbucks outlet in East Timor but most of the green beans grown in the remote high altitudes of the country end up in their stores around the world.
Organic coffee enthusiasts who flock to the franchise love the smooth chemical free blends from the beans which are lauded for their low acidity. After being blended with South American beans, Starbucks introduced an organic blend called Arabian Mocha Timor in 2005.
Asia’s smallest, youngest and poorest nation is defined by post-independence violence and oil reserves but coffee there represents the great hope. Coffee accounts for 90 percent of the country’s non-oil exports, while 46 percent of East Timorese households rely solely on coffee for their income
The crop has grown in the country for centuries. It accounted for half of the country's trade when it was a Portuguese colony in the late 1800’s, but during 24 years of Indonesian occupation the bumper business was neglected when the military took over - prices fluctuated and many coffee plantations were battlefields so the quality of beans worsened.
By the war’s end, agricultural experts estimated two generation’s worth of farming knowledge was lost and some plantations looked more like jungles.
But because the trees got little attention the pesticide and fertiliser-free groves are now a goldfield for organic coffee lovers. Today, the coffee is known as the golden prince of East Timor agriculture - worth $10m a year, 46,000 coffee farms employ one-fifth of East Timor’s population but it is a major battle to encourage farmers to improve the quality of East Timor’s agriculture.
They have some of the world’s oldest coffee trees growing in poor volcanic soils under skies that bring very unreliable rainfall. It is so bad, that a hectare of Timorese coffee plantation produces half of what the same plot in nearby Papua New Guinea can produce.
Workers do not like pruning trees which would raise production by 10 percent every year because they are afraid of hurting the tree’s spirit.
Building a farming culture that involves good business generally is desperately needed because experts say the country has some of the worst agricultural yields in Asia.
Many communities in East Timor are plagued by what they call “the hungry season” - four months of famine where last year’s crops run out and the next harvest is not ready.
High child mortality rates because of malnutrition and poverty are among the worst in Asia, also farmers often do not save during bumper years.
The private sector arm of the World Bank ranks East Timor among the most difficult places in the world to do business, but a number of NGO’s are trying to rebuild the tiny nation’s subsistence agriculture base and business practices.
For agriculture, it will take a decade to renew the industry for villages crippled by the burden of hunger and poverty; NGO’s like Empreza Di'ak are improving facilities and livelihoods with different projects in a nation where food is largely imported.
Other groups like Seeds of Life are working to identify high yield varieties of staple crops best suited the country’s climate.
By introducing reliable seeds they hope to improve livelihoods in Timorese agriculture and deliver higher yields, but efforts to improve food security and seed distribution in this largely agrarian society remain contentious.
Some locals meet modern farming methods and industrialisation with suspicion, saying traditional organic methods and crops are better as they are part of their cultural identity.
In an exclusive interview with 101 East, the country’s new President Taur Matan Ruak says its time for the country to abandon organic subsistence agriculture to lift the nation out of poverty.
With picturesque scenery and a strategic trading location East Timor dreams of becoming a financial success like Bali or Singapore, and with limited oil reserves developing a strong agricultural base is needed.
101 East explores the truth behind your cafe latte and asks could coffee be the key to East Timor’s prosperity?
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Beautiful and quite country.
Just been to East Timor for a visit and it's an amazing place. They are in so much need of everything we take for granted. But they are happy now and look forward to developing their country. Love the country. Love the people, especially the little kids. I look forward to seeing them develop themselves into who they want to be. Thanks Al Jazeera for a well developed piece.
yeah for some reason communism???? the u.s. and Henry Kissinger took it upon themselves to destroy the country back in the seventies!!!! worse lose of life than vietnam! not reported in the press until too late!
Thank You for vist Our Timor.
Antonio Palma bo
Love the little kids ehhh? 🤔🤫😂
It was much better under indonesian occupation.. in the reality indonesia help the country Tobe catholic aswell as gave so much money to build the timor Leste.
what a beautiful country.. I am hoping for more progress for the people in Timor..
Best coffee in the world 🌎... please increase with out chemicals, people want organic, non GMO... Tks East Timor 😃🌟
Agroforestation is the only way to go. Nature works in a symbiose of plants and we should work to optimize and understand this to ensure good healthy soil and biodiversity
Parabens irmaos doTimor! apos o terrivel massacre nos anos 70, que Deus os abencoe na reconstrucao de seu pais, o Brasil esta com voces.
Obrigado irmaos do Brazil, Deus esta com voces.tambem.
stunning scenery!
My work colleague went to east timor for a visit and she went back with boxes of coffee from that place.. I love the coffee it has a strong aroma.. Well i love to drink in the morning..
Yes I usually leave with several kilos of coffee. Its a thing. I arrived in Darwin from Timor Leste a few years ago. The quarantine office was saying to all of us “Other than coffee, do you have any food?”
Thanks for this video
I love East Timor
thanks Al Jazeera...welcome to Timor leste...
Thanks Al Jazeera....
How does it taste? Ingin tahu rasanya.
Made me crave for coffee right now
Wild coffee is the absolute best.
They are not wild. The way they grow coffee is traditional.
Um abraço de um Português na Holanda. 🤗
Love that,s coffe
i hope they go the more natural way. modern farming technolodies destroy the land and air.
Exactly. Ego knows what he is talking about.
my country East Timor.
The musician who is also the organic farmer activist....what's his name again.? Agog?
5 do Oriente
I would like to taste it
Ah Timor Leste, I like dat country
🙏❤🇹🇱
We only appreciate other people's work, but we Timor-Leste people cannot produce it ourselves
respect Ego Lemos,stay strong,fuckem with fertilisers,chemicals,roundups etc.
Yes, don't depend too much solely on coffee. As the saying goes - Don't put all your eggs in one basket ! Grow "Hard to get unique delicious organic coffee." Don't flood the market because it will cheapen your coffee. You increase production but the price - polluted water from fertilizer, from pesticide, herbicides. The water wouldn't be drinkable. Is that what anybody would want ?
it's called moderation and regular activity.
Now that we know about it, I'm sure Monsanto and/or Nestle will be over there soon enough to contaminate ... oh I mean Americanize their sustainable organic setup.
not all destruction is american. its corporates now the general pppulation doesnt like what we do to our country
lol so true
Yeah blame America. Typical douchebag thing to do.
Nestle is french...
@@mczenk5095 Truchebag thing to do .
Singapore has a geographic location that favors its development as a port city. Without that it will just be a fishing village.
😂🤣😆Fishing village, I don't think there is any fish alive in that polluted waters they have.
He speak tetum mix with indonesian
Great news
Buyers who say ooh the quality is not good, be aware.
Portugese
I prefer West Timor myself.
furak maubisse ho nia cafe orijinal............parabens o rai maubisse
Ermera krk dk
Not wild coffee but the site was coffee plantation created Indonesian government under "Transmigrasi" program became "wild" today because after independent they cannot maintenance
hahaaa not indonesian your rwong brad but from kolonial Portugis plantation.
Another moron nothing know anything before posting a comment.
morfi jer basically timorese didnt know how to grow coffee
@@basudewa9851 Portuguese only left Religion in your country all of infrastructure, Building, and plantation mostly build by Indonesia that's fact
Kopi itu udah ada semenjak sebelum portugis masuk tapi ketika portugis masuk di bikin mix dan bibitnya salah satu nya kopi toraja dan brazil itu bibitnya dari timor leste (karena dulu di toraja dan brazil ada hama yang buat semua kopi mati tapi di timor leste masih ada akhirnya bibitnya di bawa ke toraja dan brazil) karena dulu Makassar, toraja,gowa dan brazil merupakan bagian jajahan portugal
You don't think they already knew where Starbucks sources its coffee? Coffee is not a good crop for Monsanto targeting. Not enough need for pesticides with coffee.
Foreign countries coffees seem to be stronger
Ancestors didn't give them hands and feets, that's gods work..
what tonge do they speak???
Dulcinéia Dias it's Indonesian, Portuguese and mother tonge TETUM.
Dulcinéia Dias
Tetum
Dulcinéia Dias Tetum and portuguese.
hau hare video kona ba maubisse maibe iha deit inicio mak foka kona ba cafe hun ida iha pouzada de maubisse...........depois filme ne'e nia kontinuasaun laos iha maubisse maibe...........iha fali fatin seluk hanesan iha besilau ou iha ermera...............mai hau sente kontente uitoan maibe triste mak barak tamba kontiudu husi filme ne'e rasik la foti imajem detalho husi maubisse..................obrigadu
This is Indonesia not timor.
Katuas da klia bahasa Indonesia nee SE mk nee
Ema indon ga???
Katuas ne uluk iha resistensia tur hanesan secretaria sub regiaun 20 de agosto munisipo Ermera kodigo naran leki Sera Ita bot hakarak hatene ga Ita bot foin Moris karik se Ita bot hola parte iha organisaun Frente clandestina Hau Senti Ita bot konhese katuas ne no katuas leki Sera agora saudozo ona Fila aman maromak Nia Kadunan Santu katuas ne mos uluk terus ba bapa Nia Liman Nia serbisu iha cafe Timor NGO CCT hanesan director tempu ukun an
No. But oil can
Geography location don't compare d Singapore and east timor
i l u,,,ermera,,,
2020 World Bank Reports, East Timor / Timor Leste is included in the list of the poorest countries in the world.
Low quality of human resources and Limited natural resources. Making this country unattractive to foreign direct investors and currently all the goods and services are imported from Indonesia. Very sad after decades of declaring independence.
Listen to Ego! Not these silly foreign there to impart their greedy lifestyle. Hormat Pak. Tuhan memberkati.