Growing Bush pepper in pots and fields
Yield can be obtained from the third year of planting:- BLACK PEPPER is an important spice crop of India, which is a major producer, consumer and exporter of black pepper…
Everything You Wanted To Know About White Pepper- Indian Coffee Estates
White pepper is a spice widely used in cooking. It has a distinct smell and light peppery aftertaste. It is obtained from the fruits of the vine Piper nigrum, which…
Farm survey and soil sampling of coffee plantation
Experimental site and description area The Barahona Province has an extension of 1,639 km2. It is located between latitudes 18°40' and 18°12'N and longitudes 71° 17' and 71°21' W, southwest of the Dominican Republic. The area has an altitude between 700 and 1200 m.a.s.l, has a temperature annual range of 17 and 22 °C with an annual average of 26 °C1 The annual rainfall varies between 655 and 2296 mm (Pérez et al, 2002). The coffee cultivated area in the Barahona Province is 11,082 ha with about 3,565 participating farmers (CODOCAFE, 2002). Most of the area (98.6% or 30,710 ha) is in arabica cofee (C. arabica), whith the remainder (1790 ha) is planted to robusta coffee (C. canephora).
Soil fertility diagnosis of coffee farms
The first two principal components account for 76% of the total variance (Table 4). The first component has the higher explanatory power of the data. In this component, positive values…