Takengon which is one of the world's best coffee producer and exporter of Indonesia's largest coffee abroad proved to have its own history. Gayo Land is a pretty good place for a coffee plantation with an altitude of 1,000 to 1,300 meters above sea level. according to Dutch insyinyur that the best coffee is at an altitude of 1200 meters above sea level. Four places in Tanah Gayo Dutch plantations, among others Takengon district, and the central highlands.

As expressed by Mr. Tomo and Mr. Jafar as the former plantation worker, plantation workers brought the Dutch from Java in 1931 for diperkebunan employed, for the workers of the plantation area consists of hundreds of workers and having each function, there placed as foreman or supervisor or a supervisor plantation workers. 

As with Javanese culture, the beginning of each payday Dutch holding entertainment events like Ketoprak, puppets etc. as popular entertainment. Besides the earlier settlers of the plantation region existing indigenous tribe, namely (Gayo). When the Dutch introduced coffee plants to new Gayo Gayo society was at that time aware of any marketed Coffee Gayo however difficult because the trade is still dominated by the Dutch.

Gayo Highlands community at that time was the time before the arrival of the Dutch farming community just Gayo bersawah and other farming. Dutch start investments introduce Plant Coffee, Tea, avocado, pine and Eggplant Agur. When the avocado is a special luxury food Dutch people, but dogs that have proven popular avocado avocado seed grows everywhere so it can not be controlled by the Dutch again. Eggplant Agur which some people call a typical food Gayo (Gayo Cecah). Dutch do not just coffee plants iventasinya wrote but there are also plants that are planted by the Dutch pine and nursery done in Lampahan, Bener Meriah districts are then planted diseputaran Lake Laut Tawar and partly Large districts in the region Linge, Linge, a plateau 1400 meters above sea level, so it is not suitable for coffee but in Linge Pinus Pine sap turns produces the best in the world.