CocoaThe fourth edition of this highly regarded book has been considerably enlarged to cover 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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... first contact of the Old World with cocoa beans (Bergmann 1969). There is no evidence that cocoa was cultivated in South America or in the Caribbean at that time, although it is thought that cocoa was used for ceremonial purposes in ...
... first contact of the Old World with cocoa beans (Bergmann 1969). There is no evidence that cocoa was cultivated in South America or in the Caribbean at that time, although it is thought that cocoa was used for ceremonial purposes in ...
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... first countries to produce Forastero cocoa were Brazil and Ecuador. There have always been many wild cocoa trees in the Amazon basin and when exports began in the eighteenth century much of the cocoa was collected from wild trees known ...
... first countries to produce Forastero cocoa were Brazil and Ecuador. There have always been many wild cocoa trees in the Amazon basin and when exports began in the eighteenth century much of the cocoa was collected from wild trees known ...
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... first of the major technical advances which have led to the wide variety of cocoa products available today. The separation of the cocoa butter from the cocoa bean produced a powder containing 22-25 per cent fat which was easier to ...
... first of the major technical advances which have led to the wide variety of cocoa products available today. The separation of the cocoa butter from the cocoa bean produced a powder containing 22-25 per cent fat which was easier to ...
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... first introduced in 1876. The Swiss had a virtual monopoly of milk chocolate until Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate was introduced in 1904. The growth of consumption of milk chocolate in a variety of forms has been the most striking ...
... first introduced in 1876. The Swiss had a virtual monopoly of milk chocolate until Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate was introduced in 1904. The growth of consumption of milk chocolate in a variety of forms has been the most striking ...
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... First World War, but these have all been converted to other crops. In Equatorial Guinea most of the cocoa was produced on plantations. More' recently cocoa has been planted quite extensively on some plantations in the Congo, and in ...
... First World War, but these have all been converted to other crops. In Equatorial Guinea most of the cocoa was produced on plantations. More' recently cocoa has been planted quite extensively on some plantations in the Congo, and in ...
Contents
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4 Planting material | 80 |
5 Propagation | 93 |
6 Establishment | 119 |
7 Shade and nutrition | 166 |
8 Maintenance and improvement of mature cocoa farms | 195 |
13 From harvest to store | 444 |
14 Quality and inspection | 505 |
15 Marketing | 528 |
16 Production | 543 |
17 Consumption and manufacture | 587 |
APPENDIX 1 Visual symptoms of mineral malnutrition | 598 |
APPENDIX 2 International Cocoa Standards | 601 |
APPENDIX 3 Conversion factors | 607 |
9 Replanting and rehabilitation of old cocoa farms | 210 |
10 Labour usage | 234 |
11 Diseases | 265 |
12 Insects and cocoa | 366 |
APPENDIX 4 Publications on cocoa | 608 |
INDEX | 610 |
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