Shade or No Shade for Arabian Coffee.

Abstract

Throughout the world the question of shade for coffee has been the cause of controversy among coffee planters, and among the research or overall authorities who guide or control the various coffee industries. It is only in recent years that research has been able to simplify the problem and give guidance to those who plant coffee. Mr. Haarer lends some support for the theory for shading Arabian coffee, but at the end of this article we have printed a note, extracted from the Information Bulletin, Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences, which advocates a no-shade theory for nursery seedlings, at least under the conditions that prevail at Turrialba, Costa Rica.