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    Systematic agronomic farm management for improved coffee quality

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    Läderach, P.
    Oberthür, T.
    Cook, Simon
    Estrada Iza, M.
    Pohlan, J.
    Fisher, M.
    Rosales Lechuga, R.
    Date
    2011
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Läderach, P. and Oberthür, T. and Cook, S. and Estrada Iza, M. and Pohlan, J. and Fisher, M. and Rosales Lechuga, R. 2011. Systematic agronomic farm management for improved coffee quality. Field Crops Research. 120 (3): pp. 321-329.
    Source Title
    Field Crops Research
    DOI
    10.1016/j.fcr.2010.10.006
    ISSN
    0378-4290
    School
    Department of Environment and Agriculture
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18323
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    There is growing interest of international markets in differentiated agricultural products from the tropics. Coffee is a tropical crop of relatively high quality, whose value is increasing as consumer demand in developed countries for specialty coffee. Smallholders in emerging markets can benefit by capitalizing on the natural resource variability in their production system and from the knowledge that they have about this variability. The objective of this paper is to illustrate the benefits of systematically targeting management practices by coffee growers to improve attributes of their product. Data from case studies in Colombia and Mexico show statistically significant differences in beverage quality of coffees grown under different production conditions such as slope aspect, varieties, times of harvest, and shade levels. Possible intervention options can be selected by growers in terms of their ease of implementation, the likely improvement of quality that they achieve and the resource intensiveness they require. The conclusion is that optimum management is site specific so that it is not possible to make any blanket recommendations. Using continuous management cycles of implementation, observation, interpretation and evaluation the site specificity provides growers an opportunity to improve management over time to produce a higher quality product. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.

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