This farmer had 5 500 coffee trees on 2,5ha, twice the usual planting density, and believed that South Africa could ultimately produce enough coffee to meet local demand.
One of the most costly aspects of a coffee plantation is labour for picking the berries and for pruning or cutting back the trees. But a former Tanganyika (now Tanzania) coffee farmer is confident he has found the answer to part of this problem, although his scheme is a little