We recently attended the 5th World Coffee Conference and Expo, 2023 held at Bangalore, India (25 – 28 September 2023 | Bengaluru, India). We had a chance to interact with scientists, policy makers and coffee Planters from different coffee growing Countries. Thanks to the efforts of the Coffee Board of India, we were fortunate that […]
Jezebel, The Flying Jewel Inside Shade Indian Coffee
The Western Ghats, home to shade grown ecofriendly Indian Coffee is a biodiverse hotspot of butterflies. The surrounding coffee plantations with the three-canopy shade system provides ideal micro climate for the proliferation of various butterfly species. As such coffee forests are home to hundreds of species of rare, endemic and exotic species of colorful butterflies; […]
Bird Friendly Shade Coffee And The lesser Golden-Backed Woodpecker
Woodpeckes are found in a variety of colours and patterns. Woodpeckers in coffee plantations have black and white spots and shades of yellow and red feathers which aid in camouflage. Woodpecker, any of about 200 species of birds that constitute the subfamily Picinae (true woodpeckers) of the family Picidae (order Piciformes), noted for probing for […]
What’s the Function of Manganese in Coffee Agroforestry?
Manganese (Mn) is one of the 17 elements essential for plant growth and reproduction. It is needed in only small quantities by plants, but like other micronutrients, Mn is ultimately as critical to plant growth as are the major nutrients. Manganese is a micronutrient and is needed in only small quantities by crop plants. However, […]
Interactions of Zinc with Other Nutrients
Zinc is now an integral part of fertilizer recommendations in coffee Agroforestry. It is generally applied along with NPK. The majority of the coffee Planters apply zinc through foliar application. However, Soil application has the advantage of leaving residual effects and thus, permitting a better utilization of applied Zn in a multi-cropping system. Soil chemists […]
Bioremediation. How it Can Help Coffee Planters
Indian coffee plantations grow some of the world’s finest quality Arabica and Robusta Coffee. In recent years a vast majority of coffee gardens are subjected to various stress due to the impact of climate change, global warming, and indiscriminate use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides. Unfortunately, heavy metals like copper, zinc, molybdenum, cobalt, and […]