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Coffee (Coffea arabica L.) Field Establishment and Management Practices in Ethiopia

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Coffee is one of the most important beverage crops, ranked the second most traded commodity next to oil globally, and grown for its health values, economic and socio-political benefits for several countries including Ethiopia. The arabica type is a highly produced coffee in different countries and dominates 70% of the world coffee trade for its quality requirements. It was first originated and is still there naturally under the shadow of the forest canopy in Ethiopia and best adapted to the higher elevations for the best quality. Nowadays, the crop has been grown naturally in the forest, in semi-forest, in the small home garden areas and plantation systems, in the country. But both the small home garden and plantation systems need human interference to produce quality coffee for domestic consumption and global market purposes. The former production system is traditionally practiced by small holder producers while the plantation was recently introduced and it is a kind of production system in a specific area by providing the agronomic requirement and others based on the plant growth stages throughout the crop ontogeny. As a result, the first and fundamental practice in the plantation system is the coffee field establishment (coffee seedling preparation on nursey, the plantation site selection and preparation and field transplant of the seedlings) at selected production areas. Also, soon after the coffee field establishment, the field management activities like shade regulation for the newly planted coffee seedlings and coffee trees permanently (coffee is the shade-loving plant), nutrients (organic sources) and water/irrigation/ application are practiced, especially around water deficit areas depends on the crop growth stages, environmental conditions and plant densities, and the weed, major diseases and insect pest occurrences to produce quality bean. Hence, most of the practices in the field establishment and field management activities have a positive contribution on the coffee production sector to be competent in the business and to fetch the foreign currencies for the country. But the Ethiopian coffee farm management systems and the agronomic practices are still traditional (90-95%) and need improvement. Thus, this paper was aimed to review the coffee field establishment and field management activities practiced in the center of arabica coffee origin, Ethiopia.

Published in American Journal of Engineering and Technology Management (Volume 7, Issue 3)
DOI 10.11648/j.ajetm.20220703.12
Page(s) 48-58
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Coffee Seedlings, Nursery, Nutrients, Plantation, Pests, Pruning, Shading, Yield

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