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a)
- Warm to hot conditions or moderate to high temperatures (100C to 260C)
-High rainfall between 1000mm to 2100 mm annually.
- Well distributed rainfall throughout the year.
- Deep, well drained volcanic soils that are slightly acidic.
- Medium to high altitude areas between 910 m and 2100 m above sea level.
- A Sunny dry period to allow ripening of the berries.
b)
-Harvesting involves hand picking of Red Berries leaving green ones.
- Harvested Red Berries are immediately taken to processing factories.
- At the Coffee factory,Berries are poured on a mat and sorted by hand to remove unripe and spoiled berries.
- The Berries are weighed and poured into a tunnel which leads them to a machine that removes the outer covering pulp.
- The beans obtained are fermented in tanks for some time.
- The Beans are washed and sundried on racks for about a week.
- Some dried beans are packed in bags and marketed as unroasted coffee.
- Other dried beans are peeled using a machine to remove husks.
- Peeled beans are sorted and graded according to size and quality.
- The beans are roasted at about 1000C and allowed to cool.
- Finally, the beans are ground into powder and packed ready for sale.
c)
-In Brazil, most of coffee is produced in large estates called Fazendas while in Kenya most of the coffee is produced by small scale farmers.
- In Kenya, Coffee is grown in the highlands while in Brazil, coffee is grown in the plateau.
- In Kenya, drought is the main weather problem while in Brazil,frost is the main weather problem.
- In Kenya, coffee yield per hectare is high due to soil preservation while in Brazil yield per hectare is low due to soil exhaustion.
- In Kenya small scale farmers mainly market their coffee through cooperatives while in Brazil, marketing of coffee is done by companies.
- In Kenya labour in small scale farms is mainly offered by family members while in Brazil, work in the fazendas is done by tenants/hired labourers
d)
i)
- Administering questionnaires
- Interviewing/Asking questions
- Observations
- Taking measurements
- Taking photographs
- Content analysis
ii)
- Drawing pie charts
-Drawing graphs
- Drawing statistical table
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