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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... important factor in making replanting dif- ficult and data from Nigeria presented in Table 3.19 show the steady decline in some of the factors with length of cultivation under cocoa . In fact there is a decline in all the nutrients with ...
... important factor in making replanting dif- ficult and data from Nigeria presented in Table 3.19 show the steady decline in some of the factors with length of cultivation under cocoa . In fact there is a decline in all the nutrients with ...
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George Alan Roskruge Wood, R. A. Lass. It is important to prevent disease spread between countries and effective plant quarantine is therefore very important . Many plant diseases ( and some pests ) , perhaps including some which affect ...
George Alan Roskruge Wood, R. A. Lass. It is important to prevent disease spread between countries and effective plant quarantine is therefore very important . Many plant diseases ( and some pests ) , perhaps including some which affect ...
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... important role in reducing bitterness and astringency and developing the chocolate brown colour of well fermented beans . There is also the objective of avoiding off - flavours through faulty drying or excessive acidity which may arise ...
... important role in reducing bitterness and astringency and developing the chocolate brown colour of well fermented beans . There is also the objective of avoiding off - flavours through faulty drying or excessive acidity which may arise ...
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