AGRO – CLIMATE AND ITS IMPACT ON COFFEE CULTIVATION IN SANA’A GOVERNORATE “YEMEN”

Abstract

Yemen has been a center of the commercial coffee cultivation and trading since the 16th century and local production is said to date back to the 5^th centaury. Export of coffee is mostly done through the port of Mocha. The Republic of Yemen (ROY) is located in the southwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula, an area that is categorized, as one of the arid regions of the world, with a land area is 527,890 square kilometers excluding the many islands in Red Sea and Arabian Sea. It was called Yemen Felix (Al-Yaman Assa’eed) or Arabia Felix. Yemen has a unique multi-climatic zones and year-round-cropping due to its physiographic and location. It was known as the food basket of Arabia, because of its fertile land and active population as well as the intensive effort applied in farmland.