As coffee cultivation catches on with farmers, Bangladesh plans to go commercial big time

Published 2021년 2월 20일

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Bangladesh is investing Tk 2 billion to promote coffee farming in non-traditional areas through projects by the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI. The initiative, aimed at reducing import reliance, has seen initial success with farmers in Bandarban and Ruma Upazilas. The government also plans to establish a soil testing and plant diseases identification laboratory in the Hill Tracts Agricultural Research Centre, and a coffee research centre in Bandarban, creating 2,000 jobs for poor farmer families. Experts stress the importance of scientific approaches, adequate irrigation, and connections to international markets for the coffee industry's profitability and sustainability.

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Coffee farming has spilled beyond the rolling hills into the vast swathes of Nilphamari, Tangail and Moulvibazar. The Department of Agricultural Extension or DAE and Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute or BARI are spending Tk 2 billion on separate projects to promote the cultivation of the non-traditional cash crop. Farmers are being trained up while research is being carried out on the local coffee species and the new technology in coffee farming. BARI is confident about exporting coffee once the commercial farming takes off. WHY COFFEE FARMING Currently, two types of coffee are cultivated in Bangladesh. One is Robusta made from beans of the plant Coffea Canephora, an African species, while the other is Coffea Arabica, also known as mountain coffee. The coffee shrubs differ in size and harvest based on the hilly sites. On an average, a hectare of land yields 7.5 to 11 tonnes of Robusta coffee, while three to six tonnes of Arabica is grown in each hectare. A total of 395 ...

Source: Bdnews24