When a bee collects sugar-rich nectar, it sucks it out using a trumpet (a tube inside which is a mobile, flexible tongue) and places it in a storage sack (crop), which is separated from the honey stomach by a foregut, known as a valve.
The crop of a typical honey bee contains about 40 mg of nectar, or about 50 percent of the bee’s une ...
Coffee as a crop has been cultivated since about 575 AD (originally in Africa) in plantations in the intertropical zone of Africa, South America, and Asia.
Coffee species that count in the world production market are:
Arabica (Coffea arabica), is native t ...