Coffee Plantations are uniquely positioned in the fragile Western Ghats. These lush and verdant biodiverse mountains are filled with surprises. They have only revealed a part of the mystery and today scientist’s world over are trying to unlock the hidden secrets associated with the coffee mountains. Evolution has deliberately created a fundamental niche which makes […]
Microbial Inoculants
In the early 1870’s the coffee leaf rust caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix, wiped out coffee plantations in Sri Lanka. In spite of the pioneering work of the English pathologist, H.Marshal Ward, no biological or chemical cure could be found to save the coffee plantations. Hence, the coffee production was abandoned in Sri Lanka […]
Biodiversity In Relation To Coffee Plantations
Readers are requested to refer the article COFFEE PLANTATIONS -A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH for a better understanding of the present article. Coffee Planters are fortunate that the entire Western Ghats is considered one among the 18 hot spots of the globe. The Western Ghats runs along the West coast of South India and covers various places […]
Global Warming in Coffee Plantations
The past decade has witnessed phenomenal changes in global climate. Drought in the southern hemisphere and floods in the northern hemisphere. A record rise in temperature or a sudden cold wave, heavy cloud bursts, bushfires, earthquakes, or severe drought; have resulted in significant changes both at the micro and macro habitat. Livestock, plants, insects, and […]
Physiology of Coffee Flowering
Indian coffee plantations are positioned inside the Western Ghats on hills and misty mountains ranging from an elevation of 800 meters to 1600 meters main sea level. Not many places in the world can boast of such a wide variety of biodiversity within the coffee habitat: forests, herbs, shrubs, flora and fauna contributing to a […]
Significance of Lime Application in Coffee Plantations
Indian coffee plantation belts are all located in heavy rainfall regions and receive in excess of hundred inches of rainfall per annum. More importantly, coffee soils are well drained soils because of the inherent nature of coffee plants which cannot tolerate waterlogged conditions. Hence, all coffee Plantations in India, may they be Arabica or Robusta […]