How to Plant a Good and True Coffee
Coffee plants are plants that are quite familiar, either in Indonesia or in the world. More than 50 countries cultivate this coffee plant. Coffee is also an export commodity with high economic value in the world market.
In this case, we have a great opportunity to make the coffee plant as a seed plant in the plantation sector. For that, if you want to wrestle this field, we must know first how to plant a good and right coffee.
How to grow good and true coffee greatly affects the coffee itself. Planting coffee can not be done anywhere. Climate and soil conditions greatly affect the growth of this plant.
For those of you who want to dabble in the plantation world, you should listen to how to grow a good coffee and the following right.
The first stage of how to grow coffee is to know what kind of coffee that you are suitable to plant in your area, for example arabica coffee suitable planted at an altitude> 800 m asl and robusta coffee type suitable planted at an altitude of 400-800 mdpl.
If you have found the type of coffee that matches the location of the land, the next step for how to grow a good and right coffee is to find a superior coffee seed. You can find this info at Coffee and Cocoa Research Center or ask a shop that sells seeds.
After getting superior coffee seeds, you must prepare the land with loose soil and fertile as well as plant shade trees such as lamtoro, dadap, and sengon. New coffee seedlings can begin if the shade tree is ready.
How to grow a good and right coffee is done by making a hole to plant coffee seeds with length 60 cm, width 60cm, and height 60cm with a distance of 2-3 meters according to the type of coffee grown
2 months before planting coffee, prepare 200gr sulfur, 200gr chalk, and the bottom soil and place it on the planting hole. 1 month later, 20kg of compost fertilizer mixed with top soil is put into hole.
The awaited stage arrives for how to grow a good and true coffee, coffee seedlings can already be planted in holes that have been made 2-3 months before. Before removing the coffee seeds from polybags, make sure the remaining leaves in the coffee seeds are only 1/3 of a part.
This is done so that evaporation on plants is reduced. You also need a pedestal as a support for a coffee plant to be sturdy and upright.
Perform stitching if the plant dies or grows abnormally. For watering is only done if the soil conditions dry / in the dry season. While the fertilization can be with inorganic or organic fertilizer about 1-2 years.
In addition, pruning needs to be done after harvest time. Another important thing is the maintenance of pests and diseases that can attack coffee plants.
That's how to grow a good and correct coffee for your reference to start in the coffee plantation sector. May be useful!
