Food & Wine Nepal – July 2019

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gain reputation as the government
had started to import coffee seeds
from India to distribute it nationwide.

However, the major shift to commercial
Coffee production took place in the
mid-eighties.

While the demand for coffee is
exceedingly high, the industry has
been meeting this demand rather well
too. Coffee shops are popping up in
every nook and corner of the country.
Be it close to Mt. Everest or along the
remote highways of the country, you
can expect to find people selling some
form of coffee everywhere. Coffee has
also turned into a business opportunity
for many a people, as they don’t think
twice before setting up a coffee shop of
their dreams.

At present, Nepal’s demand for coffee
is being met by the many coffee
plantations around the country that are
supplying coffee beans in the market.
The suppliers aren’t only providing
the local market with coffee but are
also making sure that Nepali coffee
is known elsewhere in the world too
through exports. The country has seen
a significant growth in the number of
people investing in coffee too. Coffee
plantations around the country are
increasingly rising.

History of Coffee in Nepal
The first coffee seeds in the country were
planted in Aapchaur of Gulmi district. A
hermit by the name of Hira Giri has been
credited for bringing the country’s first
coffee seed in the year 1938 from the
Sindu province of Myanmar. Though
the seed was planted, the crop did not
garner the attention until the 1970’s.

In the late seventies, expansion of
coffee as commercial crop started to
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