Coffee Production and Fertilizer Treatment

Abstract

Coffee is a stimulant with little nutritive value apart from its content of riboflavin and nicotinic acid. Yet over the centuries it has become an economic crop that enters largely into world trade; on it the fortunes of many small growers and of exporting countries depend. The rewards for growing it well, with adoption of productive varieties, sound pruning, and use of mulches and fertilizers, will increase as production is stabilized.