K. B. Thapa, Y. R. Bhusal, R. B. KC, Durga D. Paudel
Agriculture Research Station, Malepatan, Kaski

Abstract

A study was carried out for two years on fresh cherry production of coffee at Agriculture Research Station (Horticulture), Pokhara. The effect of six different treatments of organic and chemical Fertilizers was studied in four varieties of coffee namely Pacamara, Selection-10, Tekisic and Yellow Caturra. The experiment was laid out in a factorial randomized complete block design with split plot and three replications. The data on fresh coffee cherry production was collected in 2008 and 2009. The combined application of double doses of farmyard manure plus single dose of chemical fertilizer (FYM @ 10 t ha^-1 + chemical fertilizers 100:30:60 kg NPK ha^-1, respectively) gave the highest amount of fresh cherry yield (1271.9 kg ha^-1) and followed (1005.3 kg ha^-1) by the application of double dose of farmyard manure only. The lowest yield (532.10 kg ha^-1) of fresh cherry was observed due to application of double doses of chemical fertilizer only (200:60:120 kg NPK ha^-1, respectively). In case of variety, Yellow Caturra gave the maximum cherry yield (1219.52 kg ha^-1) followed by 'Selection-10' (875.95 kg ha^-1). This study revealed that the application of farmyard manure in combination with chemical fertilizer is suitable to produce more cherry production of coffee as compared to application of only one type of either organic or chemical fertilizer. It also indicated that application of higher dose of chemical fertilizer without addition of
organic manure is not effective to get more cherry yield of coffee.

Keywords: Coffee-farmyard manure-chemical fertilizer-fresh cherry