Plantation Crops

Multiple stem system (Agobiada system)

• Countries: Practiced in African and Latin American countries. Here multiple stems are encouraged by bending the main stem ( i.e., Agobiada system
• In India multiple stem training system is practiced under certain circumstances viz.,

  1) Replanted fields: When old blocks are to be replanted with a new material, the old plants are stumped and converted into multiple stem to yield crops until the new plants come to bearing.
  2) High density planting: Here coffee is planted very closely in the initial years and later thinned out to normal spacing.

• Here the plants which are to be thinned out ( removed or going plants) are raised on multiple stems for enabling the main plants to spread out their laterals.