Nepal Coffee is mainly consumed within the country, but exports have been increasing... Coffee farming is still relatively new in Nepal, at least as a commercial crop. In 1938, a mythic hermit named Hira Giri is said to have brought some coffee seeds from Sindu Province of Myanmar (then Burma) and planted them in the Aapchaur area of Gulmi District, Nepal.
After Hira Giri introduced coffee, it was not seriously planted until the government of Nepal imported coffee seeds from India in 1968. Twenty years later it was advanced further towards being a commercial crop: Nepal Coffee Company (NeCCo), was started in 1983 and in 1984 a “Coffee development Center” under the Department of Agriculture was set up in Aapchaur, Gulmi.
With the governments’ technological and financial assistance, people started to cultivate coffee and it slowly spread to more than 39 central and hilly districts of Nepal.
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