Coffee - Growing, Processing, Sustainable Production: A Guidebook for Growers, Processors, Traders and...

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Jean Nicolas Wintgens (Corseaux, Switzerland)

Coffee - Growing, Processing, Sustainable Production

A Guidebook for Growers, Processors, Traders and Researchers

Jean Nicolas Wintgens (Corseaux, Switzerland)

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Blackwell Verlag GmbH
06 June 2012

Agronomy & crop production; Tropical agriculture: practice & techniques

An outstanding and currently the only comprehensive handbook for the coffee-professional. 40 authors from the leading coffee-growing countries present the most recent technologies applied to coffee husbandry. The book features 900 carefully selected illustrations, 300 of these in full color, which substantiate the written text. The handbook provides basic guidelines and recommendations which are applicable everywhere rather than referring to any specific country. Added to this, the reader will find numerous data tables and an overview of relevant information sources.

Edited by: Jean Nicolas Wintgens (Corseaux Switzerland)
Imprint: Blackwell Verlag GmbH
Country of Publication: Germany
Edition: 2nd, Revised Edition
Dimensions: Height: 239mm, Width: 173mm, Spine: 53mm
Weight: 1.905kg
ISBN: 9783527332533
ISBN 10: 3527332537
Pages: 1040
Publication Date: 06 June 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jean-Nicolas Wintgens, a Belgian-born agronomist, has worked troughout the coffee belt of Africa, South and Central America, and Asia. Before his retirement, he held the post of world-wide advisor for coffee and cocoa production and supply at Nestle, based in Vevey (Switzerland). He is currently a frequent traveler between Mexico and Switzerland, doing consultancy work, mostly on coffee. He received two awards: - PANAMANIAN award Condecoracion de la ""Orden de Manuel Amador Guerrero"" con el grado de gran Comendador - 31.Mayo 1979. Decorated in appreciation of special services to the country in the field of agriculture. - French award: L'ETOILE DU BIEN ET DU MÉRITE Mars 2009. Pour actions humanitaires rendues en Afrique (Zaïre) au cours de la rébellion 1964-65. Rare distinction honorifique, symbole de la reconnaissance pour les actions civiques et sociales, le dévouement bénévole, se veut d'être un témoignage de gratitude pour les actions exemplaires.