Tag: agriculture

Dubai: A Saudi female specialist in microbiology has become the talk of the town after being awarded PhD in plant pathology with a focus on coffee cultivation. Maha bint Majid Al Subaie’s journey from the laboratory to the coffee fields of Saudi Arabia is breaking new ground and contributing to the development of the coffee sector in the Kingdom. Saudi Arabia has a deep-rooted love ...

For Arnold Cagas Abear, coffee is life.The 42-year-old Filipino farmer comes from generations of smallholders who have tended their fields through hard, manual labor. With his calloused hands, Abear has earned a living for his family over the years. “In Filipino culture, family is everything,” he says from his farm in Bukidnon, a province in northern Mindanao, Philippines. With three young sons and a daughter, his ...