MACHINERY USED IN ESTABLISHING AND RECLAIMING COFFEE PLANTATIONS
J. Oubrecht
Summary
The spreading of coffee plantations started in Vietnam
after the unification of the country. Coffee is one of the export commodities
for which maehineiry and equipment are bought. East European countries co-operate
with Vietnam in developing the coffee plantations. The uncultivated forest stands
in the Sia Lai Kontum, Nghe Tinh and other regions change into the plantations.
Poor quality forests, bush and savanna areas are all reclaimed and coffee trees
are planted. After planting coffee-trees in the planned area of reclaimed land,
old coffee plantations will have to be renewed. To reclaim 500 ha of lad for
the new plantations and to renew another 500 ha of the old plantations, a farm
will nedd four 150 kft tractors and four 60 kW tractors. Further, the facra
will have to buy ten five- to six-share ploughs, four combinations, five drills,
iour heavy single-body hillers and sixteen tractor trailers.
Key words:
reclaiming, machinery, performance, capacity