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Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is perhaps the most famous coffee anywhere in the world. It must be grown in prescribed areas within the parishes of St. Thomas, St. Andrew and Portland in the eastern part of the island at altitudes between 2,000 - 5,000 ft. above sea level.

Blue Mountain Coffee was first introduced into Jamaica from1728. Jamaica's natural climatic conditions produced a bean of such high quality that the island's Blue Mountain Coffee Industry quickly expanded and by 1814 there were over 600 coffee plantations in Jamaica.

Production, which originally began in the foothills of St. Andrew, gradually spread into the Blue Mountains and the mountains of Manchester, St. Ann and St. Elizabeth.

The abolition of slavery in 1834 marked the beginning of a dramatic decline in the Industry and by 1850 only 186 plantations remained in operation. Despite efforts at revival in the early twentieth century, the lack of organization within the Industry, the shortage of labor and the activities of unscrupulous produce dealers brought the Industry to virtual collapse in 1943. Export markets, disgruntled with poor quality and the lack of consistency, particularly with Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, stopped buying.

In 1953 the Colonial Secretary, following the recommendations of the famous "Wakefield Report," established the Coffee Industry Board and charged it with the development of the island's Coffee Industry. With their intervention, production was re-organized, technical assistance provided to farmers, processing and marketing centralized and a rigid quality control system implemented.

Quality again became the hallmark of Jamaican Coffee.

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