Re:Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall?
by jbob2000 on Monday September 19, 2016 @11:33AM
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TLDR; Haiti is pretty bad for growing coffee, for a number of reasons spanning politics to poor farming practices. So the coffee trees tend to be really tall because if they actually manage to grow one which produces beans, they are hesitant to cut it down.
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Re:Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall?
by Retric on Monday September 19, 2016 @11:52AM
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Haiti has social, economic, and political issues with growing coffee. The core issue is most coffee trees are not on farms, even if it's useful for them to clam to be farms.
PS: Haiti has over 800 people per square mile, that's on par with Massachusetts which does not do a lot of farming (0.1% GDP).
This reminds me of Colombia albeit the situation is better due to the peace agreement they reached with the rebel group/they are a hilly country but they are also plagued by massive corruption yet one of their biggest exporter is coffee. Interesting to compare the 2 places