Coffee

If you are a coffee and tea farmer, here are some technologies that might interest you. The Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN) has developed 64 varieties of coffee Arabica in Germplasm for genetic improvement; a socioeconomically acceptable method of rehabilitating old coffee plantations with overgrown trees through coppicing at 30cm above ground level to […]

If you are a coffee and tea farmer, here are some technologies that might interest you.

The Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN) has developed

• 64 varieties of coffee Arabica in Germplasm for genetic improvement;
• a socioeconomically acceptable method of rehabilitating old coffee plantations with overgrown trees through coppicing at 30cm above ground level to rejuvenate old plants;
• management techniques of plant geometry by de-capping to a height of 1.5m to facilitate harvesting;
• the use of half node stem cutting for propagating robusta coffee;
• open rooted method of propagating and transporting stem cuttings of robusta coffee;
• a method of termite control on coffee by spraying the waste water from cassava processed for fufu’ production;
• and organic manure made from chromolaenaodoratum (siam weed), cow dung, grasses and maize stovers as effective inorganic fertilisers.

For tea CRIN developed

• · Germplasm of 24 highland clonal tea genotypes introduced from Kenya
• · Germplasm of high yielding lowland tea varieties  from China
• · A new rapid method for determining the field pluck (harvest) quality for tea
• · DNA molecular characterisation of 20 clones, which could assist in parental selection for subsequent hybridisation.
• · Recommendation on appropriate fertiliser application on test.