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You can plant 1300 coffee trees in an acre
“We have moved away from that tradition of planting only 450 trees to the ‘Brazilian model’ where we plant over 1300 plants,” Nkandu says.
THe NUCAFE officials demonstrating the spacing for coffee trees under the Brazilian syle
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision
Traditionally, farmers plant 450 trees in an acre of coffee, however, according to Joseph Nkandu, a coffee farmer in Mpigi and researcher on coffee, an acre can accommodate as many