How do Saudis care about “Khawlani coffee”? – Saudi news

As if the men were at the top of the Al-Sarat Mountains (southern Saudi Arabia), they found in Al-Dair, Al-Reith and Fifa, their highest place, enabling them to approach the sky; So that they scoop all that the fragrant wind has poured sweet and fragrant, and make beside their comrades in the escape, the arid and the Belgian, and Jabal Hada, Wadi Ghail, Raida, Jabal Shada and al-Mukhwah as much as they can until the fruits of Khawlani coffee ripen on its land, and they leave the task of controlling the mood of the coffee roaster and its mill, until it settles in my hands “Nashama cafe” or barista, to make whatever he wants from “Arabic coffee” or even “Cortado”.And without the main factor being different for coffee drinkers, from the first generation of lovers of Arabic coffee or “qishr coffee”, or those who found their way in “American” and espresso, the International Coffee Day on the first of October for Saudis is no different from other days. Saudi Arabia is a symbol of generosity and hospitality, and a traditional drink for them classified within the intangible heritage.

Coffee Protocols

The Saudis granted Arabic coffee several protocols within their councils, as the councils laws criminalize filling a cup of coffee with a brown drink for guests, and refraining from drinking the cup from the guests indicates the necessity of fulfilling a specific request, in addition to dividing the cups into 3 types: «The hayf, the guest, and the quality» each according to Social tradition legislation. The haif cup is known as the cup that the host tastes before his guests to ensure the efficiency of the coffee, while the guest’s cup is the cup of hospitality indicative of Arab generosity, and the kif is the second cup that gives the guest the right to drink more coffee.

Supporting Khawlani coffee production in the Kingdom

Within the long list of Saudi ambitions that the Saudis are working to achieve, several competent authorities in Saudi Arabia are making efforts to support the cultivation of Khawlani coffee in Saudi Arabia, starting with sustainable agricultural rural development programs, through direct financial support for coffee farmers, specialized programs, and the preparation of their own feasibility studies. Which includes “coffee production and coffee marketing factories” and the development of ideal varieties with high productivity and quality. The initiative to rehabilitate agricultural terraces and the technology of rainwater harvesting is concerned with studying agricultural and engineering terraces, leveling and maintaining agricultural terraces, building retaining walls, and growing coffee seedlings.

The Ministry of Agriculture, in cooperation with the International Fund for Agricultural Development, implemented 60 model farms for coffee, in addition to providing Khawlani coffee seedlings, modern irrigation systems and preparing geographical indications for the land, and bringing in several experts in coffee cultivation from Rwanda and working on transferring expertise to Saudi cadres, so that the Saudis start their way towards The 1.2 million trees of Ibn Khawlani in 2025, from the Sarat terraces and close to the sky.

Saudis’ coffee is worth 1.2 billion riyals annually

Coffee coffee has been granted the title of the most traded commodity around the world after oil, to represent a main source of income in many developing countries, after the world planted 10 million hectares in more than 50 countries around the world, with an income of about 125 million people in Africa and Latin America. And Asia.

At a time when the robusta coffee controls 30% of commercial production, Arabica coffee represents 70% of coffee production around the world. Self-sufficiency in Saudi production of “Khawlani coffee” represented 0.5% of per capita consumption, while Saudis’ consumption of coffee is estimated at about 1.8 kilograms per year, as Saudi Arabia imports about 1.2 billion riyals of coffee annually from coffee.

1.2 million trees, bin Khawlani … targeted for Saudi Arabia in 2025

In addition to her accompanying workers in good land, in the hands of an oil engineer, inside the dallah of Hassawi palm farms, and on Jal Nar Karim Haili, accompanied by a sectarian roses, and at an office, Khawlani coffee farms in good land give the Saudis 800 tons of coffee annually from 600 farms in Saudi Arabia, as the Jizan region embraces about 120 thousand trees, compared to 10 thousand trees in Asir and 5 thousand others in the Al-Baha region. 135 thousand trees to 1.2 million trees in 2025.

The Saudis aim to raise the number of Khawlani coffee trees in the Jazan region to one million trees, 120,000 trees in the Asir region, and 80,000 trees in the Al-Baha region, by presenting the Ministry of Agriculture’s issuance of a guide to good agricultural practices for coffee, and issuing preliminary indicators for agricultural investment in the cultivation and production of coffee, In addition to digital marketing of Khawlani coffee, studying its strains, supporting the organic transformation in coffee cultivation, developing water resources, encouraging agricultural investment, and the alternative trees project.