Current in aceh there are two types of coffee that in budidayakan are coffee arabica and coffee robusta two types of coffee a very gayo the famous coffee gayo (arabica ) and coffee kareeng lheue ( robusta ) .For the coffee types of arabica commonly cultivated in plateau region of gayo land , aceh southeastern , and gayo lues , while in kabupaten pidie ( especially territory tangse and geumpang ) and aceh barat are more dominant developed by the community here in the form of a kind of robusta coffee.
Arabica coffee was a little bigger and dark-green , its leaves oval in shape , tall tree of reached seven meters .But in coffee plantations , tall tree of it is reserved to grow in a range of 2 to 3 meters .The goal so as to be easily during the harvest .Fruit of the coffee tree arabica started producing his first in three years .Would normally create a limb growing from the stems of with length of about 15 cm .Which was a lot younger foliage color with the rays of the sun while beneath it darker.Every stems accommodate 10-15 a series of small flowers which is going to be coffee berries .
From the process of this is then appears called cherry coffee berries , oval shaped , two other side by side .Coffee gayo is one primary commodity derived from the highlands gayo .Coffee plantations which has developed since 1908 this thrives in bener meriah district and aceh middle .Both the region that is at an altitude 1200 m of the sea level has coffee plantations widest in indonesia with wide about 81.000 ha .Masing-masing 42.000 ha located in kabupaten bener meriah and beyond 39.000 ha in the district of aceh middle.Gayo is the name tribesmen inhabits this area,The majority of the work as farmers gayo coffee.
Varieties arabica dominated kind of coffee developed by farmers coffee gayo .The production of coffee arabica resulting from the ground gayo is the biggest in asia coffee gayo is one of coffee typical nusantara origin aceh enough popular by various parties in the world.Coffee gayo has scent and the very distinctive.Most coffee is,the hard way still left in our tongue,but not so on coffee gayo.A bitter taste barely was at this coffee .Flavor gayo original coffee is on the scent coffee fragrant and taste savory barely bitter.There were even who argued that the taste of coffee gayo exceed flavor blue mountain coffee jamaican.
Coffee gayo resulting from people plantation in the highlands of gayo aceh middle.
In the area coffee grown by means of organic without its chemically so that coffee is known as coffee green ( environmental friendly ).Coffee gayo is cited as coffee organic best in the world.
