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| Coffee Business | 7 Easy Tricks to Make Your Coffee More Eco-Friendly | Raza Imam |
| | Coffee is among the most poplur drinks in the world, if not the most popular drink in the world. Unfortunately all of those coffee drinkers are unknowingly taking a pretty toll on the environment. | |
| Coffee Agriculture | A Symphony of Birds Inside Coffee Forests | Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira |
| | Inside these unique coffee forests one can witness an incredible variety of rare, exotic, native and endangered species of flora and fauna. The dense coffee forests often conceal a wide variety of song birds too. | |
| Coffee Agriculture | Aquatic Birds of the Western Ghats | Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira |
| | India is perhaps the only country in the world growing all its coffee under the canopy of a three tiered shade system. Shade grown coffee is not only environment friendly; it also has a host of other benefits. | |
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| Coffee Agriculture | Cellulose Decomposers | Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira |
| | Shade grown ecofriendly coffee plantations house a variety of forest and introduced trees which in turn provide biomass in the form of dead wood, leaf litter, plant and other residues. | |
| Coffee Agriculture | Coffee Plantations A Multidisciplinary Approach | Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira |
| | The full title of this article is Partners in Coffee Bio-Sustainability Coffee Plantations - A Multidisciplinary Approach Natural Selection in Coffee Plantations | |
| Coffee Agriculture | Eco-Friendly Indian Coffee: A Profile | Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira |
| | From a historic viewpoint, one needs to understand that Indian coffee Plantations are a result of the sacrifice of many generations. What the Grandfather plants, the great grandson enjoys and so on and so forth; it is a continuous process of trials and tribulations. | |
| Coffee Agriculture | Endomycorrhizae | Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira |
| | Technology has been the driving force behind modern day plantations. The present day coffee farmers are aggressively turning towards chemical inputs in the hope of maximizing returns in a short span of time. Trapped by economic necessity, coffee farmers are ready to abandon traditional wisdom and pump in pesticide and poisons to get better yields. | |
| Coffee Agriculture | Microbial Communities | Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira |
| | The amazing fact about Indian Coffee Plantations is that they are steeped in a tradition of growing coffee under shade by a variety of trees. | |
| Coffee Agriculture | Role of Antibiotics in Coffee Plantation Ecology | Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira |
| | The production of antimicrobial substances produced by living microorganisms within the confines of the coffee mountain. | |
| Coffee Agriculture | Role of Bacteria in Coffee Plantation Ecology | Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira |
| | The primary purpose of writing this article is to help coffee farmers worldwide in understanding the basic premise on which BACTERIA operate and the ways and means of carefully exploiting their potential to maintain a perfect ecological balance within the coffee farm. | |
| Coffee Agriculture | Role of Ectomycorrhizae In Coffee Plantations | Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira |
| | Building a coffee farm in India is like embarking on a voyage of discovery.
Challenges are in plenty. The first challenge is to break stereo types regarding modern day chemicals and poisons and to develop sustainable technologies keeping one's ears and eyes close to the ground. | |
| Coffee Agriculture | Role of Fungi in Coffee Plantation Ecology | Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira |
| | In our previous article we had explained the role of bacteria in maintaining the coffee plantation ecology. This article highlights the role of yet another important microorganism namely, FUNGI in shaping the coffee mountain ecology. | |
| Coffee Agriculture | The Ecodynamic Coffee Cube ^3 | Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira |
| | The Western Ghats, recognized world over as one among the 18 HOTSPOTS of the world, consist of some of the finest shade grown coffee plantations. | |
| Coffee Agriculture | The Impact of Climate Change on Coffee | Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira |
| | Climate change is not something new to coffee. It has already hit the coffee farmers hard in a dramatic manner. | |
| Coffee Agriculture | The Role of Actinomycetes in Coffee Plantation Ecology | Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira |
| | Coffee plantations occupy an important part of the Western Ghat landscape. This biological hot spot is home to thousands of species of rare and endangered plant and animal life. | |
