Who are the Kona coffee farmers?
The multi-ethnic heritage of Kona coffee farming over the last century has included many Japanese, Hawaiians, Caucasians, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Koreans, Filipinos, Samoans, Puerto Ricans, and others. In the early years of coffee farming in Kona, the Japanese quickly became the most prominent group, and at one point four out of five Kona coffee farmers were Japanese (see History of Kona Coffee section). Today many Kona coffee farmers can claim to be fifth generation descendants of the original Kona coffee farmers.
