๐Hello my beautiful friends , how are you all?
In Sri Lanka it's a cold rainy season.so I'm spending my time with a bit of boredom these days because my school is on vacation, so these days very lazy for me.
But I have to say that since I started writing about different things in this #HiveBlockchain, I was able to spend my time valuable.
So let's talk about the post I'm going to
share with you today.
In my previous posts, I have shared with you about the agricultural export crops of nutmeg , cloves, cocoa, if you look at my previous posts in the 
So, like nutmeg, cloves, cocoa, coffee cultivation is a very valuable agricultural export crop, so today we will talk about coffee cultivation.
We can call coffee cultivation as a very popular crop under plantation cultivation. Coffee was introduced to Sri Lanka by the Arabs in the past.
And coffee cultivation is done well in wet and intermediate zones of Sri Lanka and districts like Kandy, Matale, Nuwara Eliya and Badulla are mostly coffee growing districts.
Large-scale coffee cultivation has started in Sri Lanka since ancient times and there is a similarly high demand for coffee today.
Coffee is second only to crude oil among commodities.So you can understand that coffee is a very valuable crop.
Coffee can be called a medicinal drink and an extremely popular refreshing drink.
And actually , this coffee is the first among the natural drinks.
Also, in the natural medicine community I have mentioned how to prepare coffee powder naturally and how to prepare a healthy coffee drink.
In that post, the benefits of drinking coffee and the components contained in coffee have been mentioned.
*Today we can try coffee drinks with different flavors and among them our favorite drink Cappuccino is at the top.
In fact,today coffee is a very popular drink, so a unique coffee culture and coffee art have emerged in the world today.
There are two varieties of coffee ' first one is coffia arabica and the second one is coffia robusta.
Both these varieties are native to my village and today I am going to show you the variety of coffia robusta.
The leaves of this type of coffee are larger and dark green in color than those of the Coffia arabica variety.
And these coffee leaves grow parallel and symmetrical.
The beans of the coffee plant is formed along the in the tree arm.
In fact, making coffee green colour and ripe coffee together is a common process.
Depending on the variety of coffee, the size of the coffee plant varies, and it is generally important to keep coffee trees below two to three meters in height.
Generally speaking, coffee trees should be kept at a low height to preserve the tree's strength and ease of harvesting.
It is preferable to have two or three trunks per coffee tree rather than one trunk or multiple trunks.I really want to say that coffee can be grown as a mixed crop with nutmeg black pepper. In our land, we have planted coffee between cloves, nutmeg and bananas.
Although we have done coffee cultivation with very little effort, we have to use good cost and human labor in doing coffee cultivation on a large scale.
Coffee plantations can be damaged by pests such as beetles and snails that eat the roots of the coffee plant. In my province, the most damage is caused by snails.
Although coffee can be grown with or
without shade.
Coffee can be introduced as a shade-
loving crop like nutmeg and cocoa. Coffee crops require well-drained soil and moist soil.
Average rainfall is required for coffee crop and strong winds are adverse.
Although we can propagate coffee by seeds and stems, propagation by seeds is more advantageous.
And coffee can be harvested and dried in two ways.
That is, drying by wet method and drying by dry method can be done.
๐ณThe dry method is made by picking fully ripe coffee beans, drying them in the sun and then removing the outer skin from the coffee beans.Coffee dried under this method can be called cherry coffee.
๐ณThe second method involves removing the outer layer of the coffee pods on the day they are harvested and keeping them covered for about two days.
The covered coffee is washed and dried in the sun.The coffee made under that method is called parchment coffee and has a higher quality and higher aroma than cherry coffee.
I believe that in this post that I post today, you may have seen something that you did not know about coffee.In addition to the facts that I have posted, if the coffee crop is native to your country and province, if you know more than the facts that I have posted, please share it with us on this hivegarden community.
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