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Prevalence, Biology, and Management of Coffee Berry Disease (Collecotricum kahawe) as Influenced by Climatic Variability and Agronomic Practices in Ethiopia: A review
Coffee is a tropical evergreen flowering plant under the family Rubiaceae and is the foremost valuable cash crop in Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, coffee is the main source of foreign currency contributing a lion’s share of about 60% of the total export earnings. However, it is significantly below the crops' attainable yield potential due to various biophysical yield limiting constraints. Among the biotic factors, coffee berry disease is one of the major bottleneck and the predominant challenges in almost all coffee producing areas of Ethiopia. It causes yield loss of up to 100% under favorable environmental conditions and significantly influences the country’s economy. Therefore, this review is designed with the objective of providing better insights to the prevalence and management strategies of coffee berry disease under Ethiopian condition. It is reviewed that all coffee production systems and producing districts of Oromia and southern nation, nationalities and peoples are entirely infested with coffee berry diseases causing a yield loss from 51-100% depending on climatic conditions and area. The disease is more importantly detected in Sidama, Jimma, Chole, Gololcha, Shanan Kulu, Habro, Boke, Bulehora, Abaya Bedeno and Darolebu with mean incidence ranging 37.2% - 89.57% and mean severity of 10% - 55.14%. It is also noted that about 50% of the area are infested with the disease having a mean severity level of more than 30%. The major management option employed to tackle the disease problem were pruning and stumping, use of resistant genotypes such as (G54/13, G71/13, G67/13, G66/13370, Ar64/11 and Ar34/11), fungal biological control, fungicide application, alone or in combination.
