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 408
... attack is especially heavy on unshaded or poorly shaded plants . Destruction of the apical bud delays or even prevents jorquette formation . For instance , 20 months after planting in Nigeria only 16 per cent of exposed plants had ...
... attack is especially heavy on unshaded or poorly shaded plants . Destruction of the apical bud delays or even prevents jorquette formation . For instance , 20 months after planting in Nigeria only 16 per cent of exposed plants had ...
Page 409
... attack has been stud- ied in the Ivory Coast . Those cocoa types in which canopy formation proceeds throughout the year seem least susceptible whilst those in which canopy formation is punctuated by periods of inactivity are most ...
... attack has been stud- ied in the Ivory Coast . Those cocoa types in which canopy formation proceeds throughout the year seem least susceptible whilst those in which canopy formation is punctuated by periods of inactivity are most ...
Page 414
... attack by chafers and tend to be most set back during their first one or two years after planting out . Recent observations in Malaysia indicated attacked plants ' lost ' at least 50 per cent of stem cross - sectional area ; they also ...
... attack by chafers and tend to be most set back during their first one or two years after planting out . Recent observations in Malaysia indicated attacked plants ' lost ' at least 50 per cent of stem cross - sectional area ; they also ...
Contents
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