Diversification of fruit-bearings in a coffee agroforestry system.

Abstract

The work was developed from September of 2011 until June of 2013 in the Basic Unit of Cooperative Production “UBPC Idio Favier Favierâ€, belonging to the Brown Company Coffee and Cocoa of Yateras, in a sialitic floor (brown with carbonates, fairly laundry), with 17,54 ha of non capable area of Coffea arabica L., with the objective of diversifying different species of fruit-bearings: Implanted Persea americana 8x8 m, implanted Psidium guajava L. 4x4 m and Malpighia glabra Millsp.Linn 4x4 m, with two alive covering: Zebrina pendula and Phaseolus vulgaris, starting from a design block at random with 6 treatments and 4 replies, being measured 6 plants at random for reply of each species in an interval of 3 months, after the planting. It was obtained that the morphological parameters behaved better in the T₄ and T₆ and the floor loss in the T₂ with 0,95 t.ha^-1 to the 12 months.