Dissemination of the Coffee Plant

For centuries coffee has been a product exclusively grown and exported from Yemen and Ethiopia. The merchants of Yemen in particular have had such a strong grip over the coffee trade that they have gone to great lengths to stop anyone from bringing the plant across their borders.\nJust as the silk worm once traveled west along the trade routes, so too has the coffee plant come to be in the possession of our merchants. The plantations in our nation have begun to produce a significant amount of coffee, making beans much more readily available.