In the homeland of the Indian companion. Coffee plantations kurga

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Coffee plantations Kurga were stretched on solar slopes of hills in the shadow of shirokokronnyh dadapov, silvery beeches, breadfruit trees, rubber plants. Without them plantations are inconceivable. Reliable sentries, they the shade protect gentle coffee trees from intensive beams of the hot tropical sun, preserve them against illnesses and wreckers, do not suppose a soil erosion.

For simplification of processing coffee trees here podstrizheny. Their thin branches are bent under weight of the berries which have stuck round by their clusters. One are still green, others start to turn yellow, and the third have absolutely reddened, remind both colour and the form of a berry of a dogrose. Working women dexterously break ripe berries, throw in the bags attached to belts.

Coffee - very labour-consuming culture. Its one cleaning and processing demand many work and time. Coffee berries ripen not simultaneously, and their gathering occupies long time. Then it is necessary to remove pulp of a coffee berry and to release grains, to wash out them, to dry, clear of a peel, at last, to reassort, remove spoilt, to select the best. Excepting clearing of grains of a peel, all other operations are carried out manually. We saw, how at factory of hundred women, sitting on a floor, touched coffee grains. This laborious and tiresome employment.

India makes two versions of coffee. Below, at height of 150-200 metres, - plantations of coffee robusta coffee. And above, to 900-1200 metres, - plantations arabika. The history of coffee plantations totals in India three centuries. There is a legend, that somewhere about 1670 the Muslim pilgrim Woman Budan has brought seven seeds of coffee from Yemen and has planted them on hills in a southwest part of present state of Karnataka. In India piously chtut memory of this person. Its name names a city, and annually in Bababudane in honour of the father of the Indian coffee the colourful holiday is had.