Coffee Plantations Around the World
- There was fierce competition to cultivate coffee outside of Arabia.
- The Dutch finally got seedlings in the latter half of the 17th century. The plants thrived on the Island of Java, what is now Indonesia.
- The Dutch had a productive and growing trade in coffee and expanded the cultivation to the islands of Sumatra and Celebes.
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No one knows exactly how or when coffee was discovered, though there are many legends about its origin.
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