Toba is one of the deepest lakes on earth, at 505 meters (almost 1660 Ft.). And so the story of coffee in what is now Indonesia, the world’s 4th largest coffee producing country, began.Ĭoffee was introduced to Sumatra the NI’s western most Island in 1888, around Lake Toba, which fills a large volcanic caldera in the mountainous Northwest province of North Sumatra. ![]() The effort failed as flooding in Batavia (Jakarta) destroyed the nascent crop, but in 1699 they were successful, and the first export of coffee from Batavia to The Netherlands was just 12 years later in 1711. The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie VOC) attempted to introduce coffee, as a cash crop into The N.I. coffees are produced in the districts of Mandheling and Ankola in Sumatra at an elevation of 3,000 feet.” ![]() In writing about Netherlands’ Indies (N.I.) coffees almost a century ago, Ukers* said, “The finest N.I.
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