The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
LUDDITE
Luddite
(noun) one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
Luddite
(noun) any opponent of technological progress
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Lud"dite, n.
Definition: One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. J. & H. Smith. H. Martineau.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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