27-82-41-124 t1_jboly15 wrote on March 10, 2023 at 3:22 PM

I’m sure this is probably obvious to most, but why couldn’t coffee be grown in a greenhouse that simulates the necessary conditions? I know coffee plants must mature for several years but still.

lyam23 t1_jbomslh wrote on March 10, 2023 at 3:28 PM

No doubt it could, but the scale of coffee production world wide could likely not be sustained through such measures. At least in the near term.

FourDimensionalTaco t1_jbp08nr wrote on March 10, 2023 at 4:55 PM

And then, some agricorp creates and patents genetically modified coffee super plants with 20 times the yield and premium price.

Purple_Passion000 t1_jbp1iy5 wrote on March 10, 2023 at 5:03 PM

And half the flavor

FourDimensionalTaco t1_jbp2lsr wrote on March 10, 2023 at 5:10 PM

Unless you use the premium platinum variant, which costs 4x as much.

Shyriath t1_jbone6z wrote on March 10, 2023 at 3:32 PM

I don't imagine that there's any technical reason why you couldn't do that, but I'd imagine that building and maintaining enough greenhouses for one of the world's major commodity crops would not be cheap.