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 […]
Role of Microbes in Denitrification
More than 95 % of the coffee farmers in India have little understanding of the complex and volatile chemistry that occurs in straight and complex fertilizers. Once the chemical fertilizers are applied to the field they have to operate in an unpredictable harsh environment and send energy forward and backward a hundred times before a […]
Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria
The Coffee ecosystem is a self-sustaining stable ecosystem because of the Agroforestry model. Multiple crops grow harmoniously with a heterogeneous tree population. Coffee soils are rich in organic matter because of the enormous amounts of leaf litter due to the constant shedding of leaves from trees, shrubs, and the coffee bush. This provides the base […]
Coffee Agroforestry And Zinc Solubilizing Bacteria
Zinc is a necessary micronutrient for the metabolic activities of coffee and associated multi-crops. More importantly, zinc is required by microbes to carry out many essential physiological activities. Zinc added as a micronutrient often gets fixed in the soil and is unavailable to the plant. Plants can uptake zinc as a divalent cation but only […]
Weedicides And Its Impact on Soil Micro Flora
Indian Coffee is associated with the Agroforestry method of cultivating coffee along with multiple crops. Mechanization is to a bare minimum and when one visits the plantation one can see trees haphazardly arranged. The soil is virgin and no serious effort is made to mechanize the plantation for the sole purpose of retaining the sustainable […]
Role of Indigenous Microbes in Coffee Plantations.
Coffee Planters in India may be in for a rude shock after reading this article. But the focus should remain strong. And that is protecting, nurturing, and multiplying indigenous microflora that is unique to each plantation. The keyword here is indigenous, meaning originating or occurring naturally in a particular place. We are trying to highlight […]