Methods of Coffee Harvesting
The two methods of harvesting coffee are selective harvesting and strip harvesting. Each has advantages and disadvantages. Selective Harvesting Selective harvesting is the picking of only ripe coffee fruit by…
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…
How is coffee harvested?
Two harvesting systems are used most widely in coffee growing: Picking: Coffee picking is a totally manual harvesting process in which the ripe cherries are selected and picked one by…
Planting an Orange Tree
Growing Orange Trees Takes Time Growing an orange tree is a long-term investment. After planting an orange tree, there will be fruit growing, but the tree won't produce worthy oranges…
Tribals spice up their lives by growing black pepper
Government agencies working in the agency areas among the tribal communities which are in coffee production in the district are being encouraged to grow black pepper as an inter-crop and…
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…
COFFEE PREPARATION- Coffee Roasting- Indian-Coffee-Estates.
Coffee preparation is the process of turning coffee beans into a beverage. While the particular steps vary with the type of coffee and with the raw materials, the process includes…
Do you know about Sakleshpur ?
The town lies in the Malnad region on the magnificent hills of the biodiversity hotspot, the Western Ghats. It has a temperate climate surrounded with lofty green hills full of…
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).
Ecoregions & Biodiversity protection of western ghats
Eco-regions:- The Western Ghats are home to four tropical and subtropical moist broad leaf forest ecoregions – the North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests, North Western Ghats montane rain forests,…