Abstract
Martinique was recognised as a pioneer in the insular Caribbean for coffee cultivation in the early 18th century. The island is known for its legendary "Martinique" coffee dating from that time but it no longer has coffeegrowing industries. As part of a project to revive this cultivation, a geographic information system (GIS) was developed in order to carry out a pedoclimatic zoning and to find environments favourable to species of the Coffea genus. A first zoning resulted in an inability to produce quality Arabica coffee for the future, with rainfall representing a major limiting factor. Because the island contains the three most cultivated species of coffee in the world, a second zoning was carried out and resulted in real but limited opportunities for Coffea canephora. A third zoning has now been carried out for the last exogenous species of the Coffea genus: Coffea liberica. The edaphoclimatic requirements of C. liberica have also been defined using the world's scientific literature. Numerical data (isohyets, isotherms, geomorphology) also come from Martinican institutions with expertise in the production of environmental data (IRD, IGN, Mto-France, DEAL, CTM) 1 . This data was processed using the GIS software: QGIS version 2.18.14. The pedoclimatic zoning of Coffea liberica reveals more possibilities for cultivation and it appears to be more suited to the environmental conditions of the island than Arabica and Canephora. Based on the forecasts of the National Meteorological Services for the 2071-2100 time horizon, we carried out an agro-climatic zoning showing increased possibilities for the production of this coffee in future years.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Initial zoning found quality Arabica coffee production infeasible in the future.
- Taxon
- Arabica coffee
Coffea arabicae0 - Outcome
- inability to produce quality Arabica coffee for the futuree0
- Qualifier
- rainfall representing a major limiting factore0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A first zoning resulted in an inability to produce quality Arabica coffee for the future, with rainfall representing a major limiting factor.”
Claim · model-written summary
A second zoning found limited opportunities for Coffea canephora.
- Taxon
- Coffea canephora
Coffea canephorae0 - Outcome
- real but limited opportunitiese0
Not reportedComparatorValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“a second zoning was carried out and resulted in real but limited opportunities for Coffea canephora.”
Claim · model-written summary
Pedoclimatic zoning indicated more cultivation possibilities for Coffea liberica.
- Taxon
- Coffea liberica
Coffea libericae0 - Outcome
- possibilities for cultivatione0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- Arabica and Canephorae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The pedoclimatic zoning of Coffea liberica reveals more possibilities for cultivation and it appears to be more suited to the environmental conditions of the island than Arabica and Canephora.”
Claim · model-written summary
Coffea liberica appeared more suited to island conditions than Arabica and Canephora.
- Taxon
- Coffea libericaCoffea libericae0
- Outcome
- suited to the environmental conditions of the islande0
- Direction
- more suitede0
- Comparator
- Arabica and Canephorae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The pedoclimatic zoning of Coffea liberica reveals more possibilities for cultivation and it appears to be more suited to the environmental conditions of the island than Arabica and Canephora.”
Claim · model-written summary
Forecast-based zoning showed increased future production possibilities for Coffea liberica.
- Taxon
- Coffea libericaCoffea libericae1
- Outcome
- possibilities for the production of this coffeee0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- 2071-2100 time horizone0
Not reportedComparatorValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Based on the forecasts of the National Meteorological Services for the 2071-2100 time horizon, we carried out an agro-climatic zoning showing increased possibilities for the production of this coffee in future years.”
e1“pedoclimatic zoning of Coffea liberica”