Batavia

The planters out in the countryside were rich as well, but their contenment was tinged by the perennial caution of the farmers dependent on so many more factors than their own efforts. The newspapers of the day display an increasing concern in the 1880s, for example, that disease and blight might well turn the crops, and so the Java planters began a programme of experiment and diversification - bringing in Robusta coffee plants from the Congo, for example, to ease the times when blight affected their Arabica or Liberia bushes
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