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Article: Dwarf trees + density planting = more production/hectare. (coffee growing)
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 1989
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Dwarf trees + density planting = more production/hectare
After many years of research and practical experience, an innovative coffee grower from the municipality of Sao Jose do Rio Pardo in the Mogiano Zone of Sao Paolo, has developed a coffee tree and planting scheme that will yield in the first year of production 20 times the Brazilian national average per hectare.
Eduardo Roxo Nobre, the owner of Fazenda Tubca which was founded by his grandfather in 1870 has been concerned in recent years with the necessity of increasing yields and production due to the escalated costs of new land in the prime quality growing areas of Brazil. Sr. Eduardo has been helped ...