Hello my dear friends of Steemit I send you a big hug. Today I will be sharing with you a new topic in #celestialchallenge initiated by @sirknight, today's content is "Saturday-Agriculture".
Coffee is one of the world's most popular beverages and 80% of it is produced by 25 million smallholders.
Around 125 million people worldwide depend on coffee for their livelihoods. Coffee is the most valuable and widely traded tropical agricultural product and 25 million smallholder farmers produce 80% of the world’s coffee. But many of them fail to earn a reliable living from coffee.
These days much of the world's coffee comes from high-yield robusta plants that grow well in sunny conditions. This has had a harmful effect on the environment by depriving wildlife of trees to live in. In many places subsistence farmers are being driven off their land and are being replaced by sharecroppers.
Coffee is the world's largest traded commodity after crude oil and creates jobs for 10 millions people, many of them in poor countries. Global revenues from coffee sales are around $55 billion, compared to $30 billion in the 1990s. Coffee is sold on the world market at commodity exchanges along with other agricultural products. The benchmark robusta beans price per ton is the standard price for coffee. The coffee futures market is popular with speculators.
The United States is the world's largest coffee consumer. It consumes about a quarter of the world's coffee, importing 75 percent from other countries sin the Americas. Daily coffee consumption in the United States rose from 49 percent in 2004 to 57 percent in 2007.
COFFEE MAY REDUCE RISK OF HEART FAILURE AND STROKE.....
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Note: @sirknight started a contest and its daily topics are:
Sunday-light
Monday-darkness
Tuesday - animal kingdom
Wednesday-Structures
Thursday-ForcesNature
Friday-loveBeautyFreedom
Saturday-Agriculture
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