PDC LESSON 6.13 COMPANION PLANTING NEAR COFFE Part -3-

 

PERMA COURSE AGRO-ECONOMY

PDC LESSON 6.13 COMPANION PLANTING NEAR COFFE Part -3-

Shade plants in the coffee plantation

Some plants are grown under the protective cover of different plant species, whether for windbreaks or for shade. For example, shade-grown coffee, particularly Coffea arabica, has traditionally been grown in the light shade created by scattered trees with a thin canopy that lets light through to the coffee bushes but protects them from overheating.

Suitable Asian trees include Erythrina subumbrans (tton tong or dadap), Gliricidia sepium (khae falang), Cassia siamea (khi lek), Melia azedarach (khao dao sang), and Paulownia tomentosa, a useful woody tree.

 But coffee also grows well together with banana plantations and is productive.

You can also grow vegetables between the coffee plantations and thus achieve additional income or, as before, Paulowina wood which yields $800 per m³ after 8 years.

Text from the roots, Elisabeth Ferkonia (Aus.) PDC studied with Bill Mollison,