The water relations of a cacao tree depend on whether or no shade trees have been planted along with the cacao and whether or no vegetation completely covers the ground . If the principle be accepted that the total amount of water lost ...

Frequently found shade and multipurpose tree species in multistrata coffee systems in Venezuelan Andes . ... There are a significant range of combinations of perennial coffee with shade , fruits and timber trees .

While in some South and Central American countries shade trees are used , this is not the case in the great coffee region of Brazil . Laliére ( 1909 , p . 110 ) has noted that shade trees were unknown in the " fazendas " of Sao Paulo ...

SHADE TREES PURPOSE AND POTENTIAL FOR GUYANA Shade trees are primarily used on coffee and cocoa plantations . Planting shade trees over coffee is not absolutely necessary , as coffee trees produce well when grown in full sunlight and ...

A randomized complete block design was used ( three repetitions ) with a split - plot arrangement where the shade species were the main plots and the interclonal cocoa crosses the split - plots . Each plot had 36 shade trees and 100 ...

In most cases , however , shade trees are deciduous and lose their leaves during dry weather , thus effectively reducing tranpiration to zero . If they do not , then a judicious pruning , such as is generally practised in coffee ...

Litter production and nutrient cycling in coffee ( Coffea arabica ) or cacao ( Theobroma cacao ) plantations with shade trees . Agroforestry Systems ( Países Bajos ) . ( 1988 ) . v . 7 ( 2 ) p . 103-114 . 5 tab . 40 ref . Sum . ( En ) .

T. cacao was planted at 3 x 3 m , with 16 trees per experimental plot , using the interclonal cross ' Catongo x Pound - 12 ' ... in agroforestry systems of coffee ( Coffea arabica ) with shade trees in the Central Experiment of CATIE .