Erratic rain, sun coffee causes crop failure

Forecasts of experts, the coffee-2017 2018, Dak Lak, coffee key regions of the country have the ability to crop.

Long ago, in the Highlands in General, Dak Lak Province in particular, in November and December of every year the farmers have finished harvesting the whole area of the coffee business for harvest.



Then, take the initiative to drought about 1 month coffee trees in full blossom germ fertilizer, farmers produced a new coffee business held sprinklers be safe one (on 400 liters of water/original) in order to create conditions for blossoming coffee tree , the left evenly, focus.

If watered too soon, coffee plants will not bloom concentration, the not poor pollination leads to low productivity but also triggers the condition of nine scattered, unfocused, the farmers took the harvest ...

Years ago, to the end of February, the farmers produce coffee business has to be watered 2 batch, or tranche 3 for coffee trees. However, in this case (2017-2018), from December 2016 year to now, Dak Lak often rainy, sunny little Sun should the majority of the coffee business have yet to be "dry" fertilizer flower sprouts, watering yet for coffee trees.

Meanwhile, due to the influence of abnormal weather, the entire area was out of coffee flowers, but flowers. Even more, the berries are ripe, are harvesting the tree still flowers, causing many difficulties for the farmers.



The family Nguyen Dinh Long, in the town of Ea Pốk (Cư M'gar district) has 4.3 hectares of coffee business to know, years ago, to this point, the family was watering operations for the coffee to the coffee bloom, fruiting in bulk irrigation, separated from 22 to 25 September.

But, this year, erratic weather too, the family has not watered so that coffee is still blooming, but uneven, bloom is more likely to yield decreased compared with the previous annual ...

Also you commune, Phu Xuan M'lô Yichun (krong) good business farmers of the district also said the time of watering for the first harvest of the coffee trees are important, will directly affect the differentiation of flower sprouts , the percentage of fruiting. So this year's erratic weather, coffee not actively be watered so the flowers don't focus easy to afford to lose the season, again a lot of the harvest because the berries ripen not focused ...

Dak Lak Province currently has over 204,000 hectares of coffee; in particular, there are nearly 194,000 hectares of coffee business for harvest each year, with output reaching from 455,000 tons of coffee bean.

According To The VNA


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