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Coffee farming

Where did it start, and where did it reach?

It is well known that coffee is a tree originating in Abyssinia, then
I moved to the south of the Arabian Peninsula.

The world's source of coffee was the country of Yemen, until the end of the seventeenth century AD. Then its cultivation spread to the island of Ceylon and to Java in Indonesia. Then to many islands in America, as well as to Mexico.

Yemen was replaced by coffee with the cultivation of khat, and that was the case
Replacing evil with much good. Now listen to what one man did to transport one coffee tree, the origin of its spread in the New World, to America:

This man was a naval officer, a young Frenchman, who was posted on the island of Martinique. His name was De Clieu and he visited France in 1723. In it, he learned that the Dutch transferred the cultivation of the coffee tree from the Arabian Peninsula to the East Indies. There were only a few units of this plant in all of Paris: in the royal palace, the palace of Louis V, in a heated glass house. From this plant the officer obtained a very small bush, which he carried with him to Martinique. In his description of the trip, he said that he was sharing this shrub with his share of drinking water so that it would remain alive.
He reached the island and farmed it. In the year 1777,
Years after the death of this brave, vigilant officer,
They counted the coffee trees on the island, and it was 19,000,000 trees.
Bin tree, not khat tree

- Coffee, how did its drinking spread?

Qahwa, which is coffee drink, is an Arabic word meaning pure milk. Or is it wine. Perhaps it was called wine because when drinking it took root among the Arabs, it was circulated in the bowl to the drinkers as if it were wine. When it began among the Arabs, some people opposed it on the grounds that it was intoxicating, and others welcomed it. Its spread among Arabs and around the world did not begin until a few centuries ago.

The coffee drink moved to Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

London's cafés, especially Coffee Houses, became famous in the middle of the seventeenth century. They were centers where literary people, politicians, and finally businessmen gathered. The seventeenth century had not ended, or even barely, until coffeehouses had moved from Europe to the United States, to New York and Philadelphia in particular.

The French pronunciation Coffee or Cafe is closely related
In the Arabic pronunciation, coffee.

- Coffee cultivation;

The coffee tree is grown on high ground,
It ranges between 1,500 - 6,000 feet, and the best coffee is
Which comes from trees grown at an altitude between 3,000 and 6,000 feet, then the coffee has a lasting flavour.

The tree needs a warm, humid atmosphere, and for this reason it prefers hills and mountainous areas. And so is Yemen.

The coffee tree is grown directly from seeds, or by folding a branch of the tree until it touches the ground, then burying its end in the soil and leaving it there. After about 4 months

(Young coffee trees on a farm in Kenya. As for the tall trees planted among them, they give them protection from the shade until they grow.)

This branch forms roots in the ground and becomes a new plant. The coffee tree begins to bear fruit in the third year, and it continues to produce coffee for many years until it reaches 50 or 60 years, but in most cases it produces sufficiently abundantly for a period ranging between 25 and 30 years.

The coffee tree needs pruning every now and then because it has a habit of expanding and filling until the appearance of the coffee tree becomes that of a wild plant.