Coffee production in Hawaii 2

Early commercial businesses on the island of Kauai in 1836 and 1845 ended in failure. The first records of production were made in 1845, the only 248 pounds, grown on Kauai and Hawaii Island. The Great Mahele in 1848 allowed private ownership of land for the first time that large areas were once grown on Maui, but were crops.In of sugar cane and other special replaces infected scale insects on coffee trees, many of the other islands . The slopes of Kona region were not suitable for sugar cane, so that the area became the center for the coffee industry in Hawaii. To be called Kona coffee grown in this district alone.

In 1873 awarded the World Exhibition in Vienna Kona dealer Henry Nicholas Greenwell, a prize for excellent performance, which some recognition of the "Kona" name gave. Around 1880, John Gaspar Machado, the first coffee mill built near Kealakekua Bay. In 1892 the Guatemalan race Hawaii by German Hermann A. Widemann.Also planter was at this time of ladybugs (or ladybirds) were able to control the contamination level was introduced.

When the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 (the formation of the Territory of Hawaii), meant the dropping of charges was still profitable sugar, coffee and some trees were torn. Here, the prices fell in 1899 and 1900, which swept away some of the other plantations. In 1916 production was approximately 2.7 million pounds, while the sugar expand.World caused the Second World War in 1917 and a severe frost in Brazil in 1918, a worldwide shortage, and prices rose.