Coffee production in Jamaica

Coffee production in Jamaica began after 1728, when governor Sir Nicholas Lawes introduced the crop near Castleton, north of Kingston.

[3] Farming methods are specifically oriented towards a high rate of production with optimum acidity.

As it is labour-intensive, it provides employment to a large extent to the rural and urban people of the country right through the stages of production, processing, and sale.

[3][better source needed] More than 80 per cent of the production of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is exported to Japan.

[2] In 2005, there was a shortfall in this export on account of destruction to the crop resulting from the Hurricane Ivan in the later part of 2004.