Production of coffee grafts in Cuba

Abstract

The technique of the Hypocotyls graft of Coffee, also known like graft Reyna in honor to its creator, is a technology that allows to use appropriate soils for the cultivation of the coffee whose obstacle is the presence of parasitic nematode of the roots of the cultivation, it was introduced in Cuba in the decade of the 1980, it was perfected to final of the nineties (XX century) and the first decade of the XXI century began to introduce for investigators of the Estación Central de Investigaciones de Café y Cacao (ECICC) and later on to generalize in the productive practice through the Fórum of Science and Technique from 1995 until the year 2009, stage in that 574581 that it didn’t satisfy the demand according to the affectations for nematodes of the gender Meloidogyne sp. took place in Santiago de Cuba province and in the coffee municipality of the Tercer Frente those that ascended to 28 % and 55 %, respectively; for that which in the year 2010, the team of grafting’ of the ECICC in coordination with the Enterprise of coffee of the territory decided to put into practice the integration of all the obtained results including the whole required organizational process and this way to achieve the biggest production of grafts in a campaign what facilitated the obtaining of 142 496 grafts, as well as to sit down the bases for productions of similar or bigger magnitude in next year’s in dependence of the interests and the coffee grower of the territory demand.