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Regenerative Agriculture in Coffee Farms

23 de Jan, 2025 Por Bourbon Coffee

How coffee producers are adopting regenerative agriculture to improve soil health, biodiversity, and sustainability.

Walking through coffee farms in different producing regions, we surveyed how many regenerative practices producers apply to their properties. We always identify various management techniques, even without certification requiring them—producers voluntarily implement sustainable practices that benefit both the environment and production!

There are still many definitions of “REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE“, but based on everything I’ve researched so far, I understand it as a set of practices aimed at improving soil health and biodiversity while increasing coffee productivity and quality sustainably, using the environment as an ally in production. It not only sustains soil and resources but seeks to restore and enhance the production environment.

plantação de café e céu azul ao fundo.

During our farm visits, we identified five key practices adopted by producers:

  1. Using organic compost to improve soil structure and health.
  2. Based on crop monitoring, applying biological products to control pests and diseases, with the possibility of integrated management with chemical pesticides.
  3. Implementing/replacing coffee crops with more resistant, robust, and productive varieties, reducing pesticide use based on variety resistance and increasing productivity per hectare.
  4. Maintaining soil cover with plants that help decompact the soil, generate organic matter, protect the soil, and enhance water retention.
  5. Establishing and structuring green areas on the property, either as ecological corridors, windbreaks, or even intercropped with coffee.

Regenerative Agriculture is highly dynamic precisely because it adapts to the needs of each property while always aiming for the same goal: meeting global coffee demand with sustainability and high productivity per area!

Many producers have already been adopting some of these practices on their own for years! Sustainable coffee farming is not new, and from now on, we aim to expand this approach through certifications that ensure both producers and consumers the truth and effectiveness of agriculture that benefits the environment! ☕️☕️☕️

mulher morena, sorrindo em foto estilo foto para perfil profissional.


About the author: Bruna Souza is an Agronomist Engineer, Sustainability Analyst, and part of the Sustainability team at Bourbon Specialty Coffees.

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