Articles for Coffee Plants

Can scientists save your morning cup of coffee?
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Can scientists save your morning cup of coffee?

Hindustan Times  

CAFFEINE is one of the world’s most popular drugs, and coffee one of its best-loved delivery mechanisms. The problem is that coffee is a fussy plant—and Coffea arabica, the beans of which account for 70% of the world’s production, is especially so. Dr Girkin and his colleagues note that the shade provided by taller trees helps prevent coffee plants from …

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Can scientists save your morning cup of coffee?
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Can scientists save your morning cup of coffee?

Live Mint  

CAFFEINE is one of the world’s most popular drugs, and coffee one of its best-loved delivery mechanisms. The problem is that coffee is a fussy plant—and Coffea arabica, the beans of which account for 70% of the world’s production, is especially so. Dr Girkin and his colleagues note that the shade provided by taller trees helps prevent coffee plants from …

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Your morning coffee may be hundreds of thousands of years old
8 months, 1 week ago

Your morning coffee may be hundreds of thousands of years old

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Using genes from coffee plants …

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Dearth of summer showers puts farmers in a spot in Wayanad
9 months, 1 week ago

Dearth of summer showers puts farmers in a spot in Wayanad

The Hindu  

The dearth of summer rains has pushed farmers, especially coffee and black pepper farmers in Wayanad district, a major black pepper and Robusta coffee growing region in the State, to the brink of a crisis According to the rainfall data available from the Regional Agriculture Research Station under the Kerala Agriculture University at Amabalavayal, many parts of the district received …

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Will Southern California be the ‘Napa Valley of coffee’?
10 months, 1 week ago

Will Southern California be the ‘Napa Valley of coffee’?

LA Times  

It’s a Sunday afternoon at the San Francisco Coffee Festival at Fort Mason, and Jay Ruskey, founder of Frinj Coffee, is standing at his booth in front of a row of lush green plants wrapped in burlap. “I was working with the UC Cooperative Extension Service to plant lychee and longans when Dr. Mark Gaskell, a small berry crop expert, …

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Warming and habitat loss shrink pollinator numbers. That may hit coffee, cocoa crops hard in future
1 year, 2 months ago

Warming and habitat loss shrink pollinator numbers. That may hit coffee, cocoa crops hard in future

Associated Press  

Changes in the climate and land use are combining to dramatically shrink the numbers of insects pollinating key tropical crops. “We’re seeing the climate change is already having this really strong impact on pollinators,” said study co-author Tim Newbold, an ecologist at the University College of London. “There will be this double hit of climate change impacting coffee itself, the …

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Environmental agency approves fungicide for coffee leaf rust
3 years, 7 months ago

Environmental agency approves fungicide for coffee leaf rust

Associated Press  

WAILUKU, Hawaii — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a request by coffee growers in Hawaii to use fungicide to fight a pathogen found on Maui, Hawaii, Oahu and Lanai islands. The federal agency notified the Hawaii Department of Agriculture earlier this week, approving its request for farmers to fight coffee leaf rust with Priaxor Xemium, The Maui News …

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