Benefits of coffee farm model

What is the coffee farm model? Do you know the benefits of this model? Farmers have created many different types of coffee farm models with long experience and knowledge.

What do people benefit from these new coffee farm models?

What is the coffee farm model?

The specialty coffee farm model is an organization that grows and sells coffee depending on the size of each place. This model has a specific plan and orientation including planting and harvesting coffee and infrastructure facilities to serve the process of planting, preliminarily processing, preserving,…coffee. With this form of cultivation, producers have to invest more to improve coffee beans’ value.

From the above definition, we can see that if growers know how to choose and innovate the type of coffee model to suit the conditions, climate, and soil in the growing area, it will bring into full play the strengths of this type of coffee. as well as achieve the highest efficiency.

Up to the present time, many coffee farm models have been applied and achieved great success. So which model does it include, let’s find out below!

Types of coffee farm models

Landscape coffee farm model

In the current volatile situation, the price of agricultural inputs has increased significantly, causing many obstacles for farmers. However, many households have actively implemented the organic landscape coffee planting model, thereby saving a lot of costs.

With this type of model, people will divide into 3 floors for planting. The highest tree layer includes fruit trees or plants used to catch the sun, cover the wind and regulate the temperature in the garden. The middle floor is the main floor used to grow coffee, and the lowest floor will be where the vegetation grows.

Landscape coffee farm model

Vegetation plays a very important role to help prevent erosion, retain soil moisture, provide organic nutrients to the soil as well as create an environment for beneficial microorganisms to grow. “Take poison to treat poison”, instead of using herbicides, people apply vegetation to save water for irrigation by reducing water evaporation and keeping moisture, minimizing the use of pesticides. object. In addition, the upper floors are planted with fruit trees and pepper trees not only to protect the coffee layer below, but also to help increase income outside of coffee trees.

To ensure the organic-oriented model, the selected planting area must not be located in polluted areas of factories and residential areas. Different from the traditional way of growing coffee, households often plant trees in buffer zones along adjacent roads and gardens. This way prevents cross-contamination between gardens and helps plants grow better.

Over a period of cultivation, meticulous investment and care, productivity and quality of coffee have been significantly improved, fruit products are more diverse, so the income of people applying this model has also been increased

The coffee farm model combined with animal husbandry

In recent years, coffee farming is facing difficulties due to climate change, causing many farmers to be unprofitable or even suffer heavy losses. To overcome this situation, people have invested heavily in raising livestock under coffee trees. The 3EM farming and husbandry model has opened up a new horizon to create conditions for sustainable development in coffee farming.

The preferred breed of chicken is a hybrid fighting chicken with a large weight and fast growth time. The raising process is quite simple, during the day they are released into the garden, and at night they automatically return to the barn. In the first 20 days, industrial bran was fed, then bran mixed with green corn was given, and in the last 2 months, only corn was given. Thanks to the chicken flock, farmers can take waste directly to fertilize trees, chickens also have the habit of picking grass to eat, so they don’t have to spend time cleaning the garden, reducing input costs significantly. On the other hand, chickens often dig in the soil to find insects, so they always make the soil loose and fertile, good for plant growth. At the same time, the chickens will be protected by the canopy of the coffee tree from the harsh sun and shade, so they will be less sick. The symbiotic relationship between chickens and coffee trees is mutually beneficial.

Thanks to making full use of this strength, households have significantly reduced input costs, thereby making coffee farming more profitable than before. In addition, people not only make profits from growing coffee but also from selling chickens, bringing high economic efficiency.

Coffee farm models combined with chicken farming

New coffee farm model: “three layers of seedlings, two layers of trees”

This experiment is a method of planting up to 3 layers of coffee seedlings – early ripening varieties (right season), slightly late-harvesting varieties and especially late-harvesting varieties (almost off-season). This is considered a new and very promising coffee production model in Vietnam.

Three layers of seedlings, two layers of trees

Based on the topography and growth characteristics of existing coffee varieties, growers will consider each variety suitable for its own suitable terrain. In the central part of the farm in the middle of the hilltop or halfway up the hill, late-ripening varieties are planted; the middle ring is varieties that ripen slightly late; and the outermost ring at the foot of the hill are varieties that are ripe in the right season.

Growing method of this new model: late-ripening coffee varieties are usually varieties with extremely good drought tolerance. The arrangement of planting late-ripening varieties on high ground on the top of the hill in the “core zone” around the drying yard, near the camp is correct because the tree still produces large fruit and meets the standards. In the “buffer zone” halfway up the hill, farmers will often plant varieties with less drought tolerance. Next, in the outermost ring, the lowest part of the hill is planted with varieties that are less drought tolerant. When the fruit is ripe in the right season, it will create more favorable conditions for the tree to grow in an environment with high humidity. With this method of planting, the harvest time will be extended to 3-4 months.

There are many advantages when implementing this model. The first is to reduce the workload. At the same time, because coffee is harvested until it is ripe, it helps to limit the widespread coffee theft, thereby improving the quality of raw coffee. Especially, thanks to the scattered harvest over many months, this “three-layer” coffee garden can also flexibly adjust the market price if the domestic and international markets during the main harvest season have many erratic changes.

By implementing these new farm models, people can make the most of the cost and labor to produce high-quality, low-cost coffee beans. Hopefully, in the near future, models of intercropping or combinations like this will become more popular and developed.