Basic Plant Biology: Keeping the Coffee Plant “Happy”
What Plants Need A healthy, “happy” coffee plant is one that is able to produce the greatest number of quality seeds. There are three main factors influencing the “happiness” of…
Coffee Agriculture
1. A total of 25 million farming families in 60 countries depend on coffee for their livelihood. About 70 percent of the world’s coffee is grown by 7 million farmers on farms on than less than 5 hectares (12 acres) of land. Much of the work is still done by hand. Because coffee is raised on mountain sides and in forest it can not be planted and harvested with large machines like corn or wheat, which are grow on flat areas and are harvested with the entire plant being cut down. Coffee bushes take years to reach peak production, which means that growers need to make an initial investment and wait.
2. These days much of the world’s coffee comes from high-yield robusta plants that grow well in sunny conditions. This has had a harmful effect on the environment by depriving wildlife of trees to live in. In many places subsistence farmers are being driven off their land and (more…)
Coffee, Spice & more
Fondly referred to as the ‘Coffee Cup of India’, this is one sobriquet that Coorg wears with an almost possessive air. After all, some of the world’s best coffee is…
COFFEE PLANT
1.The coffee plant is a perennial tropical evergreen belonging to the genus Coffea in the family Rubiaceae . Although there are at least 60 plants in the genus, only three…
Picking Coffee Cherries
My first real coffee activity in Costa Ricawas picking and processing coffee cherries. Processing removes the beans from the cherry. After an eye-opening drive to the plantation, we rode…
Planting New Coffee Trees
Planting New Coffee Trees In this article I will discuss coffee seeds, planting the seeds and transplanting the seedling pairs. In the next post I will show how small coffee…
Coffee Facts & Coffee Links
Coffee growing in Brazil Brazil is not only world’s largest coffee producer; it is also the most complex. It turns out everything from mass produced coffees that rank among the…
Coffee for conservation—how one woman’s quest is saving species
Coffee, the elixir of modern-day living, the one beverage that helps you kick-start your morning, is destroying the planet in many ways. Even as coffee becomes the second most tradable…
Shade-grown coffee
Shade-grown coffee is a form of the beverage produced from coffee plants grown under a canopy of trees. A canopy of assorted types of shade trees is created to cultivate…
Coffee: Coorg’s Lifeline
Coorg is synonymous with coffee. The majority of the populace of this tiny district owes its sustenance to this little bean. The coffee plant is life-giving, to say the very…