Arboreal inventory and manage in established plantations of robust under low pruning system or back cutting
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The project was developed in the solid mountainous Sierra Maestra and Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa between 1996-2003 years and later was generalized in different coffee municipalities of the oriental and central area from country, to study the arboreal management and low behavior the association with Coffea canephora. Three experimental places were located to facilitate the management and to guarantee the contribution of the producer’s knowledge on the species during study: La Mandarina, Tercer Frente, Santiago de Cuba province; La Zarza, Sagua de Tánamo and La Güira, Mayarí both of Holguín province. Was combined the association of the arboreal species managing the C. canephora applying a lower pruning system or back cutting, with the buds selection, from three to seven, leaving a witness with reparation pruning. Different technologies were applied for the shade manage: total pruning of the spare and undesirable species for the coffees, rising of the timber branches above the coffees top, stout trees of shade skeletonization, alone in the case of the species Samanea saman, (carob tree), to reach more than 1.0 t x ha of coffee gold, without detriment for the quality of the final product and without affectation of the means. The yields increase in sense of the biggest density or quantity of offsprings for plant, between 0.73 and 1.83 t x ha-1. There were not incidences of pests and diseases and the ecological balance is restored.
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