5.4.2 Q2: How Much Do You Grow in a Year?
It should be noted first that 2019 was used as the year for these estimates. Coffee was
the easiest crop to monitor in terms of annual yields (Table 5.5). A total for the study
area was 2927 fanegas (n ¼ 77), where 1 fanega or bushel ¼ 46 kilograms or about
100 pounds (a total of 2927 kg or 6452 lb). This was grown in a total of 142 hectares
(n ¼ 76), for a yield of 21 kilograms per hectare or 45 pounds per hectare. An
average of 38 Æ 54 fanegas (or 1748 kg ¼ 3854 lb) of coffee were produced in 2019
based on self-reported data from the collected sample. They were grown on an
140
131.43
69.8
36.8
19.5
Crops
3.96
3.2
2.5
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
Quantity (hectares)
Coffee
Cows
Grass
Sugarcane
Lychees
Pepper
Cacao
Fig. 5.5 Quantities of crops grown in the study area reported by farmers in the corridor (∑ ¼ 267.2
hectares, n ¼ 107)
120
Frequency
100
96
21
4
1
80
60
40
20
0
Crops
Crop1
Crop2
Crop3
Crop4
Fig. 5.6 Frequency counts of (any) crops grown in the study area (n ¼ 122)
5.4 Follow-up Interviews
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