Indiacoffee - Indian Coffee, Monthly magazine - Cover Story - The North-East Coffee Eco-Type (#)

  „By the 1940s, the North-East tea heartland had 100 acres of Arabica coffee, cultivated in small holdings in the same Khasi and Jaintia hills, considered as the centres of origin of Coffea khasiana and Coffea jenkensii. Land survey reports of the 1940s indicate the replacement of the indigenous coffee varieties by exotics in the region. This shift could have been induced by the inability of the indigenous species to change into commercial propositions. However, what is significant is that the exotics were never cultivated as monocultures.“

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BBC - History - Elisabeth Dakin (c.1848)

  „Coffee originated in the tropical regions of Ethiopia, where the plant, Coffea Arabica, thrives in high altitude rain forests. It was first cultivated by Arab merchants, who introduced it to the port of Mocha in Yemen around the 6th century. Europeans first discovered it a thousand years later.“

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Tips on Coffee - The Coffee Plant

  „The genus, Coffea, which the common coffee tree belongs, contains about 25 species. Coffea Arabica is the largest cultivated coffea but other commercially known are Coffea Liberica, Coffea Stenophylla, Coffea Excelsa, and Coffea Canephora (Robusta). By far, Coffea Arabica and Coffea Robusta are the species of coffee plant most commonly cultivated.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide

  „Coffea Arabica.  The earliest cultivated species of coffee tree and still the most widely grown. It produces approximately 70% of the world's coffee, and is dramatically superior in cup quality to the other principal commercial coffee species, Coffea canephora or Robusta .All fine, specialty, and fancy coffees come from Coffea arabica trees. “

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide

  „Arabica, Coffea Arabica.  The earliest cultivated species of coffee tree and still the most widely grown. It produces approximately 70% of the world's coffee, and is dramatically superior in cup quality to the other principal commercial coffee species, Coffea canephora or Robusta .All fine, specialty, and fancy coffees come from Coffea arabica trees. “

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