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"There are roughly 800 coffee farms in the Hawaiian Islands producing as much as nine million pounds of unroasted beans a year; California produces only hundred
by theparanoid 9y ago
"There are roughly 800 coffee farms in the Hawaiian Islands producing as much as nine million pounds of unroasted beans a year; California produces only hundreds of pounds."
California coffee production would have to increase by five orders of magnitude to compare with Hawaii.
- hammock 9y agoSounds like a great opportunity for startup capital. Is 10x growth every year for 4 years that unreasonable to you?
- theparanoid 9y agoFor one coffee plants take half a decade to produce.
- ars 9y ago> which takes half a decade to produce. So what you are saying is that in about 10 years California could match Hawaii output? That doesn't seem very long to me, not for this business.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoAnd then 10 years after that, California coffee would be overplanted and the price would crash. :-) The current almond glut is a cautionary tale. Lead times measured in years (sometimes decades) is one of the many problems inherent in being a farmer.
- grenoire 9y agoUnder the assumption that Hawaii supply will not increase at all in those 10 years, sure...