Evaluation of different strains of coffee Arabica in the highlands
2011
Pedroche, N.B. | Galacio, A.M. | Bacayan, J.J.O., Bureau of Plant Industry-Baguio National Crop Research and Development Center, Baguio City (Philippines)
Coffee is one of the most important agricultural commodities in the country as well as in the world, it is the most prestigious beverage consumed. This study was conducted at the Baguio National Crop Research and Development Center for three consecutive years from February 2006-December 2009, to evaluate and characterize the different strains/varieties of Coffee Arabic and to recommended the best Arabica Coffee strains for registration to the National Seed Industry Council(NSIC). Out of the seven strains evaluated,BRRT registered the widest canopy diameter with 290.0 cm comparable to yellow bourbon with 288.33 cm. Caturra Brazil had a narrow canopy with 190 cm. Further, BRRT had the shortest distance of clusters between nodes with 3.38 cm, the highest member of clusters per branch of 8.15, the greatest number of berries per cluster with 10.84 and producing the highest yield of coffee beans with 1,941.55 kg/tree. Based on classification of dried coffee beans strains BRRT, BRRB, IRRT, B10T, BRRI and Caturra Brazil have big size ranging from 150 to 175, while Robusta(Check)and yellow Bourbon were small ranging from 200 to 210. On cup quality, the flavor of yellow Bourbon was very much preferred by cup testers with an average mean of 7.33 followed by Caturra Brazil with 7.0 while the rest of the strains were moderately liked. On aroma, strains BRR1 was liked very much with a rating of 8.0 followed by strains BRRB, BRRT and Caturra Brazil with a rating of 6.67 or moderately liked. As a result of evaluation, three strains namely: yellow Bourbon, Caturra Brazil and Red Bourbon were registered to the National Seed Industry Council(NSIC).Strain BRRT has the highest return on cash expense of 93.89% followed by B10-T with 91.42%. This could be due to the high yield of coffee beans with 4.2 metric tons/hectare.
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