MILAN – Experts from the Institute of Agronomy and Forestry Sciences of Vietnam celebrate the achievement of 21 new varieties of coffee highly resistant to diseases, reports Prensa Latina.
A quality award granted by the Ministry of agriculture and Rural Development was given to 13 out of the 21 new varieties, that include 11 Robusta and 2 Arabica.
According to researchers the Robusta variety will produce from 4.5 to 7 tons of beans per hectare in each harvest and will have only from 0 to 0.1 percent of probabilities of become infected by the coffee leaf rust (roya).
The 10 Arabica varieties will produce from 4 to 5 tons per hectare and will have high resistance to the most common insects and fungi, including the roya.
The Institute has coordinated with authorities of the provinces the creation of a special area measuring dozens of hectares to produce each year around 4 millions of shoots to provide local farmers with the new varieties.
