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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... area in India in 1978. Relation of temperature 4 months previously to hardness of cocoa butter. Manufacture of a typical European milk chocolate World production of cocoa 1945/46 to 1980/81. Production graph for Brazil. Production graph ...
... area in India in 1978. Relation of temperature 4 months previously to hardness of cocoa butter. Manufacture of a typical European milk chocolate World production of cocoa 1945/46 to 1980/81. Production graph for Brazil. Production graph ...
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... areas of South and Central America. There are over twenty species in the genus but the cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao, is the only one cultivated widely. The headwaters of the Amazon basin have been said to be the origin of the cocoa tree ...
... areas of South and Central America. There are over twenty species in the genus but the cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao, is the only one cultivated widely. The headwaters of the Amazon basin have been said to be the origin of the cocoa tree ...
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... area unsuitable for the cocoa tree but by the Mayas and other subject peoples. While chocolatl was a luxury in Mexico City, it was probably consumed by many classes of people in the growing areas. However cocoa beans had far more ...
... area unsuitable for the cocoa tree but by the Mayas and other subject peoples. While chocolatl was a luxury in Mexico City, it was probably consumed by many classes of people in the growing areas. However cocoa beans had far more ...
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G. A. R. Wood, R. A. Lass. basin. The main cocoa areas at the beginning of the sixteenth century were Tabasco, which borders the gulf of Mexico, Soconusco on the Pacific coast of Mexico and also in what is now Guatemala and El Salvador ...
G. A. R. Wood, R. A. Lass. basin. The main cocoa areas at the beginning of the sixteenth century were Tabasco, which borders the gulf of Mexico, Soconusco on the Pacific coast of Mexico and also in what is now Guatemala and El Salvador ...
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... cocoa formed only a small proportion of Brazil's production. Exports from Para, the State through which all exports from the Amazon area passed, were 1,000 tonnes by the end of the eighteenth century, reached 2,000 tonnes by 1820, and ...
... cocoa formed only a small proportion of Brazil's production. Exports from Para, the State through which all exports from the Amazon area passed, were 1,000 tonnes by the end of the eighteenth century, reached 2,000 tonnes by 1820, and ...
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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