Biogas reactors as a resource recovery system in coffee pulp processing

Abstract

Coffee is an important global product. In fact it ranks only second to oil in traded price volatile commodities of the world - a relatively unknown fact! In most countries where coffee is produced it is for external trade and India is also not an exception. Many developing countries produce coffee and the world's largest consumer is United States, which accounts for nearly 25% of the global consumption. The bulk of coffee produced is exported bringing in foreign exchange to these developing economies. However, environmental aspects of coffee production have by and large being ignored.