Abstract
The study was carried out to review coffee research and production in Nigeria in the last one decade (2009-2018). The research was done through the use of some past and published works on coffee. The two economical type of coffee in Nigeria are C. arabica and C. robusta. It was discovered that the coffee producers are abandoning their coffee farms for other agricultural crops due to less production quality and international price. The study revealed a downward trend in coffee production in the last one decade. Challenges facing coffee production in Nigeria were low prices and poor farm management. Therefore, there should be more research on addressing these challenges while farmers and others stakeholders in coffee production should be motivated to establish new coffee farms.
Highlights
Coffee story begins in Ethiopia, which is the original home of the coffee plant, Coffea arabica, which still grows wild in the forest of the highlands of Ethiopia
It was reported that the gross domestic product (GDP) largely depends on coffee export revenues with the sector employing an important proportion of the rural population [3]
The research reviewed the production of coffee in Nigeria between 2009 and 2018
Summary
Coffee story begins in Ethiopia, which is the original home of the coffee plant, Coffea arabica, which still grows wild in the forest of the highlands of Ethiopia. At the end of the nineteenth century, the discovery of C. robusta in Congo opened the way for coffee growing on lowland areas [4]. Despite its significance in the world trade, marketing of coffee encountered a downward trend in the last few decades. Coffee cherries are the raw fruit of the coffee plant, which are composed of two coffee beans covered by a thin parchment like hull and further surrounded by pulp. These cherries are usually harvested after 5 years of coffee trees plantation and when the bear fruit turns red [9]
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