Cafe: Cultura e Tecnologia Primaria

This book on coffee, includes chapters on: The term 'coffee' and the origin of the beverage; Origin and dispersion of cultivated species of coffee; Recent developments in production and marketing of coffee and its derivatives; Vegetative structure of the main cultivated species of coffee; Factors of importance in cultivation of the main species of coffee; Coffea arabica L. and Coffea canephora Pierre cv. of current or potential agronomic interest; Selection and preparation of material for planting; Establishment of a coffee plantation; Operation of a coffee plantation; Renovation of a coffee plantation; and Primary processing of coffee (covering drying, cleaning, grading, separation of defective coffee beans, pulp removal, fermentation and final cleaning)