Castillo
A rust-resistant variety developed by Colombia's national coffee research centre (Cenicafé), derived from Caturra and Hybrido de Timor breeding lines, and widely promoted to Colombian growers to replace more disease-susceptible varieties.
This page is a short reference entry. The full account of the subject is the Colombia origin guide.
Where Castillo is documented in the atlas
Only countries CoffeeHQ has written an entry for, and only where a document it has read names Castillo there. This is not a list of everywhere it is grown.
- Colombia. With the Colombia variety, on more than 87 per cent of the planted area, according to a 2024 bulletin of the national research centre that bred both. Source: Castillo 2.0. Variedad mejorada: más resistencia, más resiliencia (Avances Técnicos 566).
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