CocoaThis text covers all aspects of cocoa production. Higher prices for cocoa have led to much new knowledge about the plant and changes to its methods of production. These are discussed, along with new problems that have occurred and the fresh research projects that have been needed. |
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Page 31
... Amazon populations described by Pound ( 1938 ) These encompass all the populations described and collected by expeditions in the vast Amazon river basin , but the picture is far from complete . Until recently the main objective of all ...
... Amazon populations described by Pound ( 1938 ) These encompass all the populations described and collected by expeditions in the vast Amazon river basin , but the picture is far from complete . Until recently the main objective of all ...
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... Amazon basin as follows : Passing westwards from Belem de Para there is not much variation in the central type of Brazilian Amelonado pod until one reaches the Solimões , or middle Amazon , above the junction of the Rio Negro . It thus ...
... Amazon basin as follows : Passing westwards from Belem de Para there is not much variation in the central type of Brazilian Amelonado pod until one reaches the Solimões , or middle Amazon , above the junction of the Rio Negro . It thus ...
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... Amazon cultivars and as a group they were more vigorous , more precocious and higher yielding than other types . Quality assessments for bean size and flavour resulted in ten Amazon types : T60 , 63 , 65 , 72 , 73 , 76 , 79 , 82 , 85 ...
... Amazon cultivars and as a group they were more vigorous , more precocious and higher yielding than other types . Quality assessments for bean size and flavour resulted in ten Amazon types : T60 , 63 , 65 , 72 , 73 , 76 , 79 , 82 , 85 ...
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Botany types and populations H Toxopeus | 11 |
Environment G A R Wood | 38 |
Planting material H Toxopeus | 80 |
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acid Agric Amazon Amelonado annum Anon application areas attack Bahia branches Brazil broom budding Bull Cameroon canker canopy capsids caused cent chupons clear-felling cocoa beans cocoa farms Cocoa Growers cocoa plants Cocoa Res cocoa swollen shoot Coconuts Colombia Conf Costa Rica Criollo crop cultivars damage dieback disease of cocoa dry season Ecuador effect Entwistle farmers fermentation fertiliser flavour forest fungicide fungus Ghana growth harvesting herbicides Itabuna Ivory Coast jorquette labour usage leaf losses Malaysia man-days mature cocoa mealybugs method mirids mistletoe Nigeria nursery nutrients old cocoa trees palmivora Papua New Guinea pathogen Peninsular Malaysia pesticides pests Phytophthora palmivora Phytophthora pod rot plantation Proc production pruning rainfall reduced rehabilitation removal replanting root Sabah seed seedlings shade trees soil SOURCE species spores spraying stem symptoms Table temperature Theobroma cacao tissue tonnes trials Trin Trinidad Turrialba vascular-streak dieback weed control West Africa wilt yield young cocoa