Book ID: 102118
Wintgens, Jean Nicolas (ed.)
Coffee. Growing, Processing, Sustainable Production. A Guidebook for Growers, Processors, Traders, and Researchers. 2nd ed. 2012. LVI, 984 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.
Contents (partly): Part I: Growing / The Coffee Plant / Botany, Genetics and Genomics of Coffee / Coffee Selection and Breeding / Coffee Propagation / Biotechnologies Applied to Coffee / Environmental Factors Suitable for Coffee Cultivation / Establishing a Coffee Plantation / Crop Maintenance / Vermicomposting in Coffee Cultivation / Organic Coffee / Frost in Coffee Crops: Frost Characteristics, Damaging Effects on Coffee and Alleviation Options etc. / Part II: Pests & Diseases / Coffee Pests in Africa / Major Pests of Coffee in the Asia-Pacific Region / Nematodes in Coffee / Coffee Diseases etc. / Part III: Harvesting & Processing / Yield Estimation and Harvest Period / Harvesting and Green Coffee Processing / Ecological Processing of Coffee and Use of Byproducts / Part IV: Storage, Shipment, Quality / Green Coffee Storage / Shipment of Green Coffee / Green Coffee Defects etc. / Part V: Economics / Economic Aspects of Coffee Production / Technology Transfer / Part VI: Data & Information / Units and Conversion Tables etc.