After a three-day surprise showers, the Katwayi and Selection breeds of Arabica coffee plantations have started blooming and spreading their fragrance creating hopes among the coffee planters at coffee plantations in Shanivarsanthe region.
The farmers who have completed the reaping process are now happy looking at bloomed flowers which look just like flow of milk or jasmine flower, but those who are yet to finish the work are bit worried. They say that the reaping work would harm the bloomed flowers which would affect the crop.
“Coffee flowers are getting bloomed after one month of finishing the reaping work. Usually if we get rains early in February we get crop early and it is a sign of good crop as well,” says coffee planter Shashikumar.
In fact the price of coffee has fallen badly. Farmers get Rs 6,475 for 50 kg for pulpered Arabica coffee seeds, Rs 6,250 for Robusta Pasment coffee seeds, while the Cherry costs Rs 3,600. Robusta Pasment coffee seeds cost Rs 6,250 and Cherry costs Rs 3000.
However, the early showers may also adversly affect the flowers by damaging them. Rains after March 15 would have been more useful for Arabica and Robusta coffee planters.
Coffee planter from Bilaha village says that it is good if it rains when coffee plants just start getting dried up. It is wonderful to see light showers which result in good sprout. Boral disease won’t affect the plants and flower blooms stably.
Again, it should rain to get seeds from the flower, another planter said. Meanwhile, farmers express their concern about decreasing coffee rate and increasing prices of fertiliser.
They say that the dearth of labourers and the increased daily wage have created serious problems.
The farmers who have completed the reaping process are now happy looking at bloomed flowers which look just like flow of milk or jasmine flower, but those who are yet to finish the work are bit worried. They say that the reaping work would harm the bloomed flowers which would affect the crop.
“Coffee flowers are getting bloomed after one month of finishing the reaping work. Usually if we get rains early in February we get crop early and it is a sign of good crop as well,” says coffee planter Shashikumar.
In fact the price of coffee has fallen badly. Farmers get Rs 6,475 for 50 kg for pulpered Arabica coffee seeds, Rs 6,250 for Robusta Pasment coffee seeds, while the Cherry costs Rs 3,600. Robusta Pasment coffee seeds cost Rs 6,250 and Cherry costs Rs 3000.
However, the early showers may also adversly affect the flowers by damaging them. Rains after March 15 would have been more useful for Arabica and Robusta coffee planters.
Coffee planter from Bilaha village says that it is good if it rains when coffee plants just start getting dried up. It is wonderful to see light showers which result in good sprout. Boral disease won’t affect the plants and flower blooms stably.
Again, it should rain to get seeds from the flower, another planter said. Meanwhile, farmers express their concern about decreasing coffee rate and increasing prices of fertiliser.
They say that the dearth of labourers and the increased daily wage have created serious problems.
Courtesy:-DHNS
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