This book has been produced against a general background of over production of
Coffee. Edited by lean Nicolas Wintgens coffee in relation to prevailing demand and the consequent very low prices pre- sently being paid for coffee on world mar- kets. The over production of coffee may be largely attributed to the development of new land for coffee plantations, espe- cially in countries like Brazil and Vietnam, and to the rapid progress in increasing cof- fee yields which has occurred in most cof- fee producing countries in recent decades, as a result of the application of new tech- nologies and the introduction of new coffee varieties. This book provides a good understand- ing of the technologies which have been re- sponsible for increasing coffee yields and has obviously been written for a wide audi- ence including coffee specialists, students of tropical and sub-tropical agriculture and practical farmers.