Lam Dong District to provide new coffee breed to growers

Lam Dong Province’s Bao Lam District will have over 3,000 hectares of grafted coffee bushes by next year, according to the district government.

Accordingly, the Bao Lam People’s Committee will provide seedlings - the first-generation (F1) coffee grafted onto the Liberia coffee (coffea excelsa), and send experts to show cultivating techniques to farmers.

Nguyen Van Trieu, chairman of the committee, said the grafted coffee is impervious to drought, disease-resistant and yields large beans which ripen evenly. This tree yields 7-8 tons of coffee beans per hectare, two times the output of the current breed, and is a favorite of many farmers, he added.

According to Trieu, Bao Lam is the first district to be selected to grow this kind of coffee on a pilot basis.

 Ngan Thong

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