Coffea

is the disease coffee rust. Two pathogens exist but only one of them is present in all coffee growing regions around the world: Hemileia vastarix. Contrary to popular belief, coffee rust can attack both Coffea arabica (Arabica coffee) and Coffea canephora (Robusta coffee). Outside of the genus Coffea, no alternative hosts for coffee rust have been found. These two coffee varieties are the most important and profitable varieties of coffee on the market. In the mountainous regions of the Valley of…

There are many legends and controversy about how and when coffee was discovered. One of the theories is that a shepherd in Ethiopia realized that after its goats ate beans from a tree, they would have so much energy that they did not sleep at night. He told the head of the monks from a monastery and this monk made a drink with the berries and found out that it had the potential to keep him up for very long hours. As the word was passed on and on, this new ideal rapidly spread around the globe.…

If it weren’t for new sources of resources, coffee lovers would all be drinking the same kind of coffee. Like all other food industry, to be different then your competitor you must have a unique taste that is different then any other cup of coffee. To get this unique taste, there are multiple ways you could perfect your own brew of coffee. You could purchase different kinds of beans, roast your coffee beans a different way, or different regions the beans are harvested from. From seed to the…

Totes McGoats: A half human half goat with a grey long sleeve undershirt and a blue shirt with the name Totes McGoat and the recycling symbol in the middle of the chest. Walks around in two legs and encourages the community of Niagara Falls to recycle their waste properly. McGoat was initially to become a fun mascot and inspire people to recycle more. However, why is this creator so horrid to look at, yet alone be advertised? Buffalo is known for Buffalo Bills and their mascot is a bison, so…

Paraphrase 1 Citrus sinensis, Commonly known as Orange,Is ¼ Pomelo and ¾ Mandarin as it is a mixed breed of the two fruits.Approximately in the year of 2500 B.C. in southeast Asia, northeastern India and southern China where they were firstly made.From India the romans delivered some fresh orange trees to Rome in 1st century A.D. as well as people from north Africa started growing them too.In the year of 1493 in Spain’s Canary Islands to Haiti by the adventurer named Christopher Columbus also…

CACAO The Social Consequences of Cacao Trading on West Africa in the 21st Century INTRODUCTION Since the last century, West African countries (Cote d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, plus others.) have seen an increment of what is nowadays one of their major exports: Cacao, bean-like seeds used in the production of cocoa, cocoa butter, and chocolate (Oxford Dictionary, 2015). This helped them become the largest cacao producer in the world today, harvesting a…

The Mambilla plateau is one of the places in Nigeria that is well endowed with abundant natural resources. The plateau is endowed with a semi temperate climate that is suitable for agricultural crop production and livestock rearing, as well as mineral resources. The Mambilla plateau has the second largest tea plantation in the world, second to the one in India. Despite the natural endowment of the Mambilla plateau, the livelihood of the rural dwellers in the area has been greatly constrained by…

Sugarcane (Saccharumofficinarum L.) is one of the most important mono cotyledon crop crops widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions which belongs to the family of Poaceae. It is an octaploid crop with a chromosome number of 2n = 8x = 80. Being highly cross-pollinated in nature, this crop requires specific, hot and humid climate for flowering (Gill et al., 2006). The sugar from the sugarcane accounts for about 70% of the worlds’ total sugar production (Comstock and Miller 2004) the…

Spilling the Beans on the Coffee Supply Chain. Coffee has been a popular drink for centuries, yet supply chain challenges fragmented production, commodity market instability, climate change continue to brew. The native origin of coffee is thought to have been Ethiopia. The earliest substantiated evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree is from the 15th century, in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen. The first ever Arabica coffee bean plant was discovered in Ethiopia, which…

"The first coffee plants originated from Africa. The coffee cherries would be grinned together by Native tribes, creating a paste which was mixed with animal fat. The mixture was rolled into little balls, used to give warriors energy for battle. The stimulating properties of a coffee during these ancient times were stipulated as a sort of religious ecstasy. There are two prominent legends emerged to explain the discovery of this magic bean." "According to one story, a goat-herder noticed his…