Arabica Coffee and the Plant Breeder

Abstract

Its well known that most tropical crops had not had attention devoted to them in the matter that of selection and breeding that has been given towards raising fruits, such as apples, beaches and other crops, to the stage of excellence, attained temperature zones. Many of the chief crops crops of the tropics are plantation crops - coffee, cocoa, rubber, sisal, coco-nut and others which often take several years to come in to bearing and still longer before individual tree or plant records may be procured that are sufficiently reliable to serve as basis of breathing operations.