Coffea arabica L. is a perennial cash crop which is highly affected by biennial bearing. Most of the time, agronomic practices are applied with the objectives of boosting coffee productivity and production. But very less emphasis on their role of mitigating coffee yield bienniality. Most literatures and scholars didn’t clearly and directly indicate the significance of agronomic practices in diminishing oscillation productivity of Arabica coffee. Thus, this review was conducted to assess the importance of salient agronomic practices in alleviating biennial bearing of Arabica coffee and to identify the existing gap by generating biennial intensity analysis from different findings. Salient agronomic practices such as fertilizer application, cover crop, shade, plant density and pruning methods were articulated in this article. These practices contributed in increasing productivity and mitigating bienniality via improving physiological jeopardize agents such as branch die-back, profuse flower bud, plant nutrient, over bearing of berries and rapid exhaustion of productivity parts and environmental stress. It was elucidated that sole field management was less efficient for biennial bearing mitigation than integrated management practices. The integrated agronomic practices that boost coffee yield need to be supported by non-biennial bearing variety for complete abolish of bienniality. Currently, there is no non-biennial bearing Arabica coffee variety. Thus, coffee genetic improvement for bienniality is highly recommended in future coffee breeding program.
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Agronomic Practices, Bienniality, Coffea arabica L., Integrated and Productivity
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