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Coffee Farming – An Experimental Learning
Coffee Farming – An Experimental Learning
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ISBN: 9789394681798

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Table of contents

Biographical note

The entire gamut of Coffee farming is captured in a simple language with practical hints incorporated throughout the book.

Description

The entire gamut of Coffee farming is captured in a simple language with practical hints incorporated throughout the book.

Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I: The Basics
    • Coffee - The Universal Drink
    • The Coffee Plant
    • Selection of Area
    • Selection of Cultivars
    • Procuring Seeds and Raising Nursery
    • Opening up of New Plantations
    • Spacing and Pitting
    • Planting
    • Vegetative Propagation
    • Shade and Shade Management
    • Bush Management
    • Soil Acidity and Liming
    • Fertilizer Use
    • Organic Manures
    • Bio-Fertilizers
    • Integrated Nutrient Management
    • Soil Cultivation
    • Mulching
    • Weeds and Integrated Weed Management
    • Irrigation
    • Coffee Physiology and Physiological Disorders
    • Replanting and Rejuvenation Grafting
    • Pests and Their Management
    • Diseases and Their Management
    • Harvesting, Processing and Out-Turn
    • Total Quality Management
    • Cover Crops
    • High Production Technology
    • Low-Cost Technology
    • Watershed Management
    • Coffee in the Plains
    • Mixed Cropping
    • Organic Farming in Coffee
    • Cost of Production
    • By-Products of Coffee
    • Calendar of Operations
    • Coffee Snippets
  • Part II: The Three ‘R’s of Coffee Farming
    • Rejuvenation
    • Regeneration
    • Retention
  • Part III: Topics of Topical Interest
    • Organic Farming in Coffee
    • Mechanization in Coffee Plantation
    • High Density Planting
    • Liming Coffee Soils
    • Height of Arabica Coffee
    • Weed Control in Coffee
  • Part IV: Random Thoughts [or Rational Thinking]
    • Coffee in Alien Environment
    • In-Situ Collection of Seed Coffee
    • Rockphosphate and Lime in Primary Beds
    • Rockphosphate vs Water-Soluble P-Fertilizers
    • ‘Tonic’ Effect of Bordeaux
    • Ring-Barking of Shade Trees
    • Silver Oak as Shade Tree
    • Micronutrient Sprays
    • Drip Irrigation for Coffee
    • The Case of Vegetative Dominance
    • Biennial Bearing Tendency of Coffee
    • Mixing of Contact Weedicide with Systemic Weedicide
    • Coffee and Health
  • Index
Biographical note

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