Note:
(a) At the bottom of this report is "达扬 / 李鱼（德新社）," signifying that these two persons translate a DPA report. Well, it is a German-, not English-language report.
作者: choi 时间: 4-30-2017 15:46
(b) 东弗里斯兰人 ("Ostfriesen" in this report, which is German of course)
East Frisian in English, which is inhabitants of East Frisia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Frisia
("It is the middle section of Frisia between West Frisia in the Netherlands and North Frisia in Schleswig-Holstein" of Germany)
(i) "Frisia, historic region of the Netherlands and Germany, fronting the North Sea and including the Frisian Islands [off the coasts of the Netherlands and Germany]. It has been divided since 1815 into [Dutch part and German part]. Frisia is the traditional homeland of the Frisians, a Germanic people who speak a language closely related to English."
Encyclopaedia Britannica, undated. https://www.britannica.com/place/Frisia
(ii) Frisia itself was never a country (it has been the name of a region), but East Frisia was a countdom from 1465 to 1654, and a princedom/principality from 1954 to 1755, both under Holy Roman Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Frisia
(section 1 History: The Frisians controlled the mouth of the Ems river [which divides the modern-day Netherlands and Germany]; In 1654 the counts of East Frisia, seated at Aurich, were elevated to the rank of princes; "East Frisian independence ended in 1744, when the region was taken over by Prussia after the last Cirksena prince had died without issue. There was no resistance to this takeover, since it had been arranged by contract beforehand")
* principality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality
(Generally recognised surviving sovereign principalities are Liechtenstein, Monaco, and the co-principality of Andorra)
(c) It is said in (b)(i) that " Frisia is the traditional homeland of the Frisians, a Germanic people who speak a language closely related to English."
Note present tense of "speak." But what is the relationship between (modern or ancient) Frisians and Anglo-Saxons?
(i) Anglo-Saxon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, undated. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Anglo-Saxon
the first two paragraphs:
"Anglo-Saxon, term used historically to describe any member of the Germanic peoples who, from the 5th century ce to the time of the Norman Conquest (1066), inhabited and ruled territories that are today part of England and Wales.
"According to St. Bede the Venerable [c 673-735; an English monk], the Anglo-Saxons were the descendants of three different Germanic peoples—the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes [who lived in modern-day Denmark]. By Bede’s account, those peoples originally migrated from northern Germany to the island of Britain in the 5th century at the invitation of Vortigern, a ruler of Britons, to help defend his kingdom against marauding invasions by the Picts and Scotti, who occupied what is now Scotland. Archaeological evidence suggests that the first migrants from the Germanic areas of mainland Europe included settlers from Frisia and antedated the Roman withdrawal from Britain about 410 ce. Their subsequent settlements in what is now England laid the foundation for the later kingdoms of Essex, Sussex, and Wessex (Saxons); East Anglia, Middle Anglia, Mercia, and Northumbria (Angles); and Kent (Jutes). Ethnically, the Anglo-Saxons actually represented an admixture of Germanic peoples with Britain’s preexisting Celtic inhabitants and subsequent Viking and Danish invaders.
section 1 History: "From the 3rd through the 5th centuries Frisia suffered marine transgressions that made most of the land uninhabitable, aggravated by a change to a cooler and wetter climate. Whatever population may have remained dropped dramatically, and the coastal lands remained largely unpopulated for the next two centuries. When conditions improved, Frisia received an influx of new settlers, mostly Angles and Saxons. These people would eventually be referred to as 'Frisians', though they were not necessarily descended from the ancient Frisii. It is these 'new Frisians' who are largely the ancestors of the medieval and modern Frisians.
(d) list of countries by tea consumption per capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li ... sumption_per_capita
(as of 2014: Turkey (No 1)> Russia (2) > China (6)> UK (14) >Japan (25)>India (44)>>Germany (85) )作者: choi 时间: 4-30-2017 15:46
(e) "全球范围内，茶叶产量增加了5%，达到了创纪录的540万吨 [or 5.40 million tons]。就全球范围而言，茶是最受欢迎的饮品，需求量超过咖啡。"
(i) Dan Bolton, Global Tea Production 2015. World Tea News, Oct 4, 2016. http://worldteanews.com/news/global-tea-production-2015
(2015 production: 5.31 million tons)
, which is the latest figure available.
(ii)
(A) economics of coffee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_coffee
(green (unroasted) coffee is one of the most traded agricultural commodities in the world; section 1 World production: table shows "World Total" of "free coffee production" was 8.46 "millions of metric tons" in 2011 (source: UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) ).
(B) I fail to find coffee production figure in the FAO Web pages. This is, however, probably true. See
Total Production by All Exporting Countries. International Coffee Organization (ICO), undated www.ico.org/prices/po-production.pdf
(2013-2016 (inclusive); In thousand 60kg bags: "151 624" for 2016, including "95 204" for Arabica and "56 419" for Robusta)
Multiplication demonstrates that the statistics are for green coffee.
(C) The Coffee Guide. International Trade Center, undated www.thecoffeeguide.org/coffee-gu ... ons-and-statistics/
("Coffee Guide > 1. World coffee trade > 1.1 Introduction > 1.1.2 Conversions and statistics")
section 1.1.2 Conversions and statistics
"In accordance with internationally accepted practice, all quantity data on this website represent bags of 60 kg net (132.276 lb) green coffee or the equivalent thereof, ie GBE: green bean equivalent. Green coffee means all coffee in the naked bean form before roasting.
" for statistical purposes: 60 kg green coffee represents:
• 120 kg dried cherry
• 75 kg parchment
• 50.4 kg roasted coffee
The last, having lost water during roasting, will be completely ground into coffee powder.
Hence, I will say, worldwide, production of coffee powder is much HIGHER than that of tea leaves.