Biofortified crops interspersed with coffee: improve family nutrition and earn additional income
Planting semi-annual crops such as maize and beans in the coffee pathways during the harvest stage has been an option traditionally used by coffee growers, as a practice to add profitability to the business before obtaining the first coffee harvest. The recent launch of biofortified varieties of maize and beans with high yield, nutritional quality and adaptation to the agroecological conditions typical of the Colombian coffee zone offers a new opportunity for producers to improve family nutrition and increase their income from the competitive harvests sale without affecting coffee productivity. This presentation summarizes the advances made by Cenicafé in relation to agronomic management and the advantages of planting biofortified maize and beans under the intercropping system with coffee
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | spa |
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Cenicafé
2020
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| Online Access: | https://publicaciones.cenicafe.org/index.php/memorias/article/view/241 |
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