Smallholder coffee farmers - Supporting COVID 19 recovery for smallholder coffee farmers
Smallholder coffee farmers - Supporting COVID 19 recovery for smallholder coffee farmers
Smallholder coffee farmers - Supporting COVID 19 recovery for smallholder coffee farmers
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Best practices in coffee farming
  • Need for replanting and advantages
  • Preparation of field for replanting - uprooting, soil treatment, preparation of planting holes
  • Choice of variety, planting and after care
  • Rejuvenation - when to adopt and advantages
  • Rebuilding of missing canopy - how to do it
  • Top grafting - coversion of off type plants - after acre and maintenance
  • Why need for pruning
  • Training of coffee trees (topping/ pollarding)
  • Pruning of single stem/ multiple stem trees, when to prune & how to prune
  • Major pests of coffee, pre-disposing factors, symptoms of damage & losses, prevention strategies (mechanical, cultural etc.), dosage, frequency and method of application of pesticides
  • Major diseases of coffee, pre-disposing factors, symptoms of damage & losses, prevention strategies (mechanical, cultural etc.), dosage, frequency and method of application of fungicides
  • Soil conservation: Need for soil conservation, prevention of soil erosion (contour row planting, soil binding grass bunds)
  • Soil moisture conservation: Need for moisture conservation and methods of moisture conservation (staggered trenches, green manure crops, mulches etc.)
  • Soil testing - why it is needed and how frequently
  • Soil amendments - for correcting soil pH & its significance
  • Types of sources of plant nutrition - fertilizers, micro-nutrients, organic manures & biofertilizers
  • Dosage & time of application of fertilizers (macronutrients & micronutrients)
  • Quantity & time of application of organic manures & biofertilizers
  • Harvesting
  • On-farm drying of fruits - sun drying, mechanical drying (driers)
  • On-farm storage of dry cherry
  • On-farm hulling of dry cherry and handling
 
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