By Asst Editor Amanda C, on November 3rd, 2011
Fully washed and dried SL28, SL34 and K7 Arabica coffee beans
This attractive shrub is gaining in popularity as both a commercial and home orchard crop. It bears a prolific crop of red berries from 2 - 3 years of age that is ample to make a delicious and easily-processed home made coffee. . . . → Read More: The K7 Coffee Cultivar
By Asst Editor Amanda C, on October 20th, 2011
Landscape of Sumatran coffee growing region
Climate and growth
Ernesto Illy wrote in the June 2002 issue of Scientific American, Arabica is “a medium to low wielding, rather delicate tree from five to six meters tall that requires a temperate climate and considerable growing care. Commercially grown coffee bushes are pruned to a . . . → Read More: Cultivating Arabica Coffee
By Asst Editor Amanda C, on October 20th, 2011
The world's major coffee growing regions exists within the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer
History of Arabica Coffee
Coffea arabica is a species of Coffea originally indigenous to the mountains of Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula, hence its name. Coffea arabica was first described by Antoine de Jussieu, as Jasminum arabicum after he . . . → Read More: The History and Growing of Arabica Coffee
By Asst Editor Amanda C, on September 21st, 2011
The performance of early harvesters was impressive, with one machine achieving the output of up to 150 coffee pickers
The primary aim of any crop production system is to recover the maximum proportion of the crop at harvest in a state which will maximise final returns for the producer. This means production and . . . → Read More: How Coffee was traditionally harvested
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