Soil characteristics in specialty coffee crops in the municipality of Calarca - Colombia

Abstract

Coffee production is an economic sector of significant importance in Colombia, which is becoming increasingly important for the declaration of Unesco “Colombian Coffee Cultural Landscape†generating opportunities for the productive sector, but it also involves new challenges associated with quality Coffee order to gain access to specialized markets, highlighting the growing economic dynamics of specialty coffees. There is a relationship between agronomic practices - including the origin and characteristics of the soil - and the response of the drink cup and profiling relative to the expression of the specialty coffees defined by the SCAA (Specialty Coffee assotiation of America). Therefore, in this project a classification of soils in the region of Calarcá (pH, organic matter, major elements, textural class, iron and aluminum) was performed. From multivariate analysis, two types of soil mainly determined by the pH, concentration of calcium and aluminum levels of soil and the use of partial shade, being relevant to that type of coffee parameters were found.