A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD
A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD
A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD
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4.1.3) Small-holder or garden <strong>coffee</strong><br />
In Ethiopia, <strong>coffee</strong> is essentially a family crop for which c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong> to nati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
producti<strong>on</strong> is estimated around 95% of which 50% in home gardens. Generally these <strong>coffee</strong><br />
crops are not taller than three fetchassa (1 fetchassa = 0.25 ha).<br />
It is a type of <strong>coffee</strong> management which is indeed located in the vicinity of the<br />
owner’s dwelling. There is usually some cultivati<strong>on</strong> and water and soil c<strong>on</strong>servati<strong>on</strong><br />
tendencies, intercropping with annuals (maize, vegetables) or perennials (enset, fruit and<br />
shade trees), depositi<strong>on</strong> of refuse under trees. Systematic pruning is unknown, competiti<strong>on</strong><br />
with perennial weeds is severe and spacing is irregular. Yields are high.<br />
These farmers-owned-trees are inside or surrounding houses, but could mean farmers<br />
<strong>coffee</strong> plots located far away from home in which cultural practices are well accomplished.<br />
New varieties are planted in the framework of extensi<strong>on</strong> programmes. There is no primary<br />
forest, or it is rare. Often two or three cultivars (improved or local selected trees) are met,<br />
<strong>coffee</strong> trees planted in lines and soil kept clean. It could be situated in forest. But it doesn’t<br />
bel<strong>on</strong>g to the agro-forests’ system because of the higher human interferences. Semantically<br />
speaking, we could say that garden <strong>coffee</strong> regroups home garden <strong>coffee</strong> and these <strong>coffee</strong><br />
plots.<br />
Illustrati<strong>on</strong> 18: Model farmer of Caakaawoo kebele 2) private nursery, 4) <strong>coffee</strong> and h<strong>on</strong>ey, 5) shade<br />
trees: Crot<strong>on</strong> machrostachiyus, Cordia Africana and Albizia gummifera (Bossolasco, 28 th June 2009)<br />
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