Plantation Crops

Planting material selection for planting

A) Seed propagation and
B) Vegetative propagation

A) Seed propagation in coffee
Preparation of seeds

 Selection of berries: Only ripe berries are marked from marked coffee trees for seed collection and remove pulp and get beans.
1.  Discard floats and defective beans
2.  Seed treatment: Treat seeds with fungicide and dry seeds under shade.

B) Vegetative propagation

1) Cuttings             and            2) Grafting

Propagation by cuttings

Selection of shoots: Select orthotropic (vertical shoots) suckers from elite trees.

 Age of shoot: Semihard wood and of about six months old. ( 3 to 6 months old shoots are better)