a)State three physical condition that favour coffee growing in the central highlands of Kenya. b) Describe the stages involved in coffee production from picking to marketing. c)...

      

a)State three physical condition that favour coffee growing in the central highlands of Kenya.

b) Describe the stages involved in coffee production from picking to marketing.

c) Give four differences between coffee production in Kenya and in Brazil.

d) Your Geography class carried out a field study on a coffee farm

(i) State four methods the class would use to collect data.

(ii) During the study, the class collected data on quantities of coffee produced from the farm in the last five years.

State two statistical methods that the class may have used to present the data

  

Answers


Martin
a)
- Warm to hot conditions or moderate to high temperatures (100C to 260C)
-High rainfall between 1000mm to 2100 mm annually.
- Well distributed rainfall throughout the year.
- Deep, well drained volcanic soils that are slightly acidic.
- Medium to high altitude areas between 910 m and 2100 m above sea level.
- A Sunny dry period to allow ripening of the berries.

b)
-Harvesting involves hand picking of Red Berries leaving green ones.
- Harvested Red Berries are immediately taken to processing factories.
- At the Coffee factory,Berries are poured on a mat and sorted by hand to remove unripe and spoiled berries.
- The Berries are weighed and poured into a tunnel which leads them to a machine that removes the outer covering pulp.
- The beans obtained are fermented in tanks for some time.
- The Beans are washed and sundried on racks for about a week.
- Some dried beans are packed in bags and marketed as unroasted coffee.
- Other dried beans are peeled using a machine to remove husks.
- Peeled beans are sorted and graded according to size and quality.
- The beans are roasted at about 1000C and allowed to cool.
- Finally, the beans are ground into powder and packed ready for sale.

c)
-In Brazil, most of coffee is produced in large estates called Fazendas while in Kenya most of the coffee is produced by small scale farmers.
- In Kenya, Coffee is grown in the highlands while in Brazil, coffee is grown in the plateau.
- In Kenya, drought is the main weather problem while in Brazil,frost is the main weather problem.
- In Kenya, coffee yield per hectare is high due to soil preservation while in Brazil yield per hectare is low due to soil exhaustion.
- In Kenya small scale farmers mainly market their coffee through cooperatives while in Brazil, marketing of coffee is done by companies.
- In Kenya labour in small scale farms is mainly offered by family members while in Brazil, work in the fazendas is done by tenants/hired labourers

d)
i)
- Administering questionnaires
- Interviewing/Asking questions
- Observations
- Taking measurements
- Taking photographs
- Content analysis

ii)

- Drawing pie charts
-Drawing graphs
- Drawing statistical table
marto answered the question on September 11, 2019 at 07:13


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