Cinchona vs Coffee
Both are Plantation. Each axis is a percentile across all 538 crops — 80 means higher than four-fifths of the table. Where an axis is missing, the crop genuinely is not measured that way.
Cinchona
Coffee
| Measure | Cinchona | Coffee |
|---|---|---|
| Season | Perennial | Perennial |
| Sowing window | Jun–Jul | Jun–Jul (planting) |
| Days to harvest | 8–12 yr | 3–4 yr to bear |
| Spacing | 2 × 2 m | 2.5 × 2.5 m |
| Soil pH | 4.5–6.0 | 6.0–6.5 |
| Water | 1800–3000 | 1500–2000 |
| Temperature °C | 15–25 | 15–28 |
| Seed rate | Nursery | 1,600 plants |
| Yield | 2–4 t | 1–1.5 t clean |
| Watch for | Root rot, leaf spot | White stem borer, leaf rust |