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Biofortified crops interspersed with coffee: improve family nutrition and earn additional income Cultivos biofortificados intercalados con café: mejore la nutrición familiar y obtenga ingresos adicionales

How to Cite
Jaramillo, S. (2020). Biofortified crops interspersed with coffee: improve family nutrition and earn additional income. Proceedings of Cenicafe´s Scientific Seminar, 71(1), e71123. https://doi.org/10.38141/10795/71123




Keywords
Café

maíz

fríjol

cultivos asociados

ingresos

nutrición

Café

milho

feijão

cultivos consorciados

ingressos

nutrição

Coffee

corn

beans

associated crops

income

nutrition

Sectión
Phytotechnics
Santiago Jaramillo

Summary

Planting semi-annual crops such as maize and beans in the coffee pathways during the harvest stage has been an option traditionally used by coffee growers, as a practice to add profitability to the business before obtaining the first coffee harvest. The recent launch of biofortified varieties of maize and beans with high yield, nutritional quality and adaptation to the agroecological conditions typical of the Colombian coffee zone offers a new opportunity for producers to improve family nutrition and increase their income from the competitive harvests sale without affecting coffee productivity. This presentation summarizes the advances made by Cenicafé in relation to agronomic management and the advantages of planting biofortified maize and beans under the intercropping system with coffee

Santiago Jaramillo, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones de Café

Investigador Científico II,