Abstract
Coffee (<i>Coffea arabica </i>L.) is one of the major cash crops which were widely grown in west, south and south west parts of Ethiopia. There is wider genetic diversity in the country but the average clean coffee production is very low 0.7 ton/ha compared with other coffee producing countries. The low production was arises from erroneous management of the plant during the initial stage of establishment by using of improper nursery growing media and other field managements. The research was conducted at Jimma Agricultural Research Center nursery site in lata house to evaluate the effects of lime on the availability of phosphorus fertilizer and nutrient uptakes of coffee seedlings. The treatments consists five lime rates (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 g) 2.5 kg<sup>-1</sup> and four phosphorus mineral fertilizer rates (0, 400, 600 and 800 mg) 2.5 kg<sup>-1</sup> of soil. The experiment was arranged in factorial randomized complete block design with three replications. Soil samples were taken before planting and after harvesting. Representative leaf samples were taken and both soil and leaf samples were analyzed. The result reviled that applications of 10g lime and 800 mg P rates improves the soil parameters and nutrient uptake of coffee seedlings under nursery conditions.
Highlights
Ethiopia is the primary center of origin and diversity of Arabica coffee and production contributions ranks the leading in Africa and 6th in the world [18]
Paulos [27] reported that coffee soils in south west part of the soil was highly weathered with having low pH and low content of available phosphorus
The southern, west and south western parts of coffee production areas highly affected by soil acidity problems
Summary
Ethiopia is the primary center of origin and diversity of Arabica coffee and production contributions ranks the leading in Africa and 6th in the world [18]. The existence of wider genetic diversity of Arabica coffee and its importance in the country’s economy, productivity of the crop is very low 0.7 ton ha-1 clean coffee as compared to other coffee producing countries [11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18] Such low level of productivity of the crop stems from erroneous management of the plant during the initial stage of establishment in the field and the use of weak and whippy seedlings with undesirable shoot and root growth for field planting. The soils are extensive in the south-western and north-central highlands representing 64 and 25% of the agricultural landmass, respectively
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