Coffee Farming – An Experimental Learning
Publication Date: 01 February, 2018
Available in all formats
Publisher: Vijay Nicole Imprints Private Limited
ISBN: 9789394681798
ISBN: 9788182095298
Price: INR 495.00
Description
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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