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Cut the tree down to a stump, let new suckers grow from the base, wait two to three years for the regrowth to reach a productive crop. The new tree is often more productive than the old one. For a smallholder on cherry-by-cherry margin, the trade-off is severe: two harvest years of zero income, set against a tree that was already producing only 0.3 kg of cherry per season \u2014 a slow income collapse waiting to be replaced by a sudden one. Most farmers take the loss anyway, because the agronomy textbook is fixed and the alternative looks like nothing."]}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:{...x,fontWeight:700,color:"#000"},children:"Continuous canopy. Continuous income. No deforestation flag."}),(0,h.jsxs)("p",{style:x,children:["There is a halfway house, well-known in coffee agronomy, that GAP77 farms practice instead. It is called ",(0,h.jsx)("strong",{children:"notching"}),"."]}),(0,h.jsx)("h2",{style:w,children:"How notching works"}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:x,children:"One side of the tree \u2014 typically the sunrise or eastern side \u2014 has all its branches stripped to the main trunk. At 30\u201350 cm from the ground, a small wedge is cut into the bark of the trunk, into the cambium layer. The notch disrupts the hormone flow that suppresses lower buds, and the tree responds by sending one to four vigorous new shoots from the notched spot."}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:x,children:"The remaining half of the tree continues producing cherries. Under the stress of heavy pruning the tree often concentrates energy on the remaining fruit, sometimes producing larger, higher-quality berries through the transition. The new shoots grow quickly because the established root system and the surviving foliage feed them."}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:x,children:"After roughly two years, when the new shoots are productive in their own right, the old side of the tree is cut off entirely. The result is a younger, more productive tree, achieved without surrendering a harvest year of income."}),(0,h.jsx)("h2",{style:w,children:"Why this matters for monitoring and compliance"}),(0,h.jsxs)("p",{style:x,children:["There is a second consequence that matters to the buyer as much as to the farmer. ",(0,h.jsx)("strong",{children:"Stumping looks like deforestation on satellite imagery."})," Full canopy loss, persisting beyond standard 90-day deforestation alert windows, only resolving as new suckers grow back over two to three years. Polygon-only or zone-wide deforestation monitoring tools have no way to distinguish a stumped tree from a felled one. Every stumped farm becomes a false-positive deforestation alert."]}),(0,h.jsxs)("p",{style:x,children:["Notching does not produce that signature. The remaining half of the canopy stays in place throughout the procedure. Continuous coverage, no alert, no flag. A buyer running deforestation evidence on a Weathersafe-monitored origin does not have to sift through false positives every time a farmer renews a tree. That signal cleanliness is what gives ",(0,h.jsx)(r.N_,{to:"/blog/eudr-due-diligence-coffee",style:v,children:"EUDR Due Diligence Statement evidence"})," audit-grade defensibility \u2014 the underlying deforestation claim survives the regulatory test rather than carrying caveats into the disclosure."]}),(0,h.jsx)("h2",{style:w,children:"How GAP77 implements it"}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:x,children:"Notching is recorded in the pre-attribution data model at every coffee polygon under GAP77 enrolment. When a satellite trigger fires on a coffee polygon \u2014 even on a farm not running notching \u2014 the methodology holds the event as provisional and tracks NDVI for up to thirty-six months. If regrowth is confirmed within that window, the event reclassifies as a pruning event, recorded for transparency, not classified as adverse impact. If no regrowth follows, the event confirms as deforestation."}),(0,h.jsx)("p",{style:x,children:"The general scout records pruning practice on the fortnightly farm visit, providing on-ground confirmation. Pre-attribution metadata plus the regrowth check is what separates a pruning event from a deforestation event with audit-grade defensibility."}),(0,h.jsxs)("p",{style:x,children:["The bio-input regime that protects yield during the transition is covered in ",(0,h.jsx)(r.N_,{to:"/blog/coffee-bio-input-stocks",style:v,children:"why coffee's pesticide footprint is a reduction lever"}),". 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