3. People grow coffee trees in order to sell coffee to
foreign countries.
In certain countries of Europe people drink a lot of
coffee, but the coffee tree does not grow in their own
countries.
They buy coffee from Africa.
The countries of Africa earn a lot of money by selling
their coffee.
With this money, they can build schools and dispensaries,
they can make roads and modernize the country.
For several African countries (Ivory Coast, Uganda,
Cameroon), coffee is an important export crop.
But there are many countries in the world which produce
coffee.
Often there is too much coffee on the market and poor-quality coffee is difficult to sell.
Foreign countries buy
good-quality coffee at a good price;
they do not pay much for coffee of poor quality.
The grower must produce good coffee beans.
To produce coffee beans of good quality the grower must:
choose his seeds and grow his seedlings carefully
choose a good site for his plantation and prepare it well
tend his plantation well and prune his coffee trees
harvest the berries and prepare the beans properly.
