Robusta coffee at Madikeri

[Dinesh Valke]

Dear friends,

Coffea canephora (synonym, and popular as Coffea robusta), native of central and western subsaharan Africa; cultivated widely in tropics ... though considered inferior to C. arabica, this coffee is commercially as important ... it produces larger and quicker yield and is less prone to infection. Moreover coffee manufacturers use this coffee as a purposeful blend with other coffees to achieve certain tastes that are popular world-wide.

Seen at Kodagu Valley Resort on 30 MAR 11 ... as such found planted all over Mercara (Coorg).
They are maintained to a height of 5 - 8 ft ... the smaller arabica plants are grown among these robusta plants.

Coffee in India is known by same name in all the languages ... pronunciation differs as per regional accent ... thus:
Assamese: কফি kaphi • Bengali: কফি kaphi • Gujarati: કૉફી kophi • Hindi: काफ़ी kafi, कॉफी kophi • Kannada: ಕಾಫಿ kaaphi • Kashmiri: कह्व kahwa • Konkani: कॉफि kawphi • Malayalam: കാപ്പിച്ചെടി kaappicceti • Manipuri: kophi • Marathi: कवा kava, कॉफि kophi • Mizo: kaw-fi • Nepali: कहुवा kahuwa, काफि kaphi • Tamil: காபி kapi • Telugu: కాఫీ kaaphii


Good reading about coffee at http://www.indiacoffee.org/default.php


Regards.
Dinesh

 

[Gurcharan Singh]

Thanks Dineshji

We have taught this to students year after year, but seeing live (photographs) for the first time.

Thanks for showing.

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Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
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[Yazdy Palia]

Friends, Robusta Coffee from blossom to dry coffee from my farm.
Regards
Yazdy Palia

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Gurcharan Singh]

Great photographs Yazdy ji. By the way would you like to share any information for the third photograph.

-- 
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Yazdy Palia]

Dear Dr. Gurcharan Singh ji,
As usual, I have made a mistake. In any case, it is a nice picture of
a guar from quite close to my place. If interested, I could share
quite a few wild life pictures. However, this is not the place to do
it. Instead of ripe coffee somehow, I have attached this one.
Regards
Yazdy.

[Dinesh Valke]

Yazdy ji ... not sure whether the bison's look is kind OR stern, ... certainly, your (coffee) farm is naturally secured.
Regards.
Dinesh

[Na Bha]

and the fifth!!

[Dinesh Valke]

... the bird too is part of Yazdy ji's natural security team.
Regards.
Dinesh

[Na Bha]

[mani nair]

Yazdy ji, beautiful photos. Third one really looks dangerous,  but hope it does not damage your coffee crop.

Regards,

Mani.

[Yazdy Palia]

The fifth, my friend is coffee drying on the yard ,you can see the
almost dried ones on the left and fresh coffee laid out on the right.
The bird is a winter visitor "The grey wagtail". It comes down for the
winter from the foothills of the Himalayas.
Regards
Yazdy.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Na Bha <nabha-...@gmx.de> wrote:

[Yazdy Palia]

The third one Mani ji, is not from within the farm. It is from within
a couple of kms from my farm. In any case, it runs away when
disturbed. They are very shy, unless you surprise them.
Regards
Yazdy.