Increasing tree planting in coffee plantations can increase the yield of coffee beans

Can you imagine planting some trees in your coffee garden, which may sound surprising, but studies have shown that planting a certain number of trees in your coffee garden can increase the number of birds and increase coffee production.

Many coffee plantation owners know that one of the main risks of coffee is the coffee bark beetle, an insect that drills into the coffee beans and lays eggs into them. Studies at Alpine Coffee Farm in Jamaica have shown that introducing insect-eating songbirds into plantations can suppress pests such as the black-throated blue warbler (a black-throated blue warbler is about to grab a coffee bark).

However, it is a difficult task to maintain the bird population in the garden. Because coffee bark beetles are small and have seasonal population changes, they make up only 10% of the songbird food. To see if adding extra bird habitats in the form of trees and shrubs can make a difference, biologists have created a series of computer simulations of ecosystems in and around coffee farms.

The results show that replacing about 5% of the coffee acreage with trees, which are scattered at random on the farm, can triple the number of birds living here.

These increases can reduce the infection rate of coffee beetles from about 35% to less than 15%, and despite the reduction in coffee acreage, it has brought a slight increase in coffee bean production. If the simulation results can be used in the real world, it may be a good choice to have your coffee with a few bushes.

Although it sounds incredible, it seems that many people think that reducing the planting area of coffee and planting trees is an act of reducing coffee production, but this may not be the case and may be able to increase coffee production. As the owner of the coffee plantation, why don't you give it a try?