The Cultivation of Cocoa on Loam Soils |
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18 inches application artificial fertilisers average bamboo pots bananas or plantains beans become Bordeaux Mixture branches budded plant budded progeny budded trees budwood Cacao cassava and tannia centre cents cherelles chupon clay Clone cocoa field cocoa supplies cocoa trees cost of production Criollo crop cultivation debris drainage drains dry season Ecuador feeding roots feet forastero forked Gros Michel groundshade grown high yielding hole humus immortel trees infection inserted jorquette labour material method mulch nitrogen number of pods nursery operation organic manure overhead expenditure overhead shade Panama disease parent tree patch pen manure pest phosphate pilon planter plot potash present productive efficiency pruning realise removed resistant River Estate roads seedlings seeds selection self-compatible shade trees shoot six inches spaced sprayed with Bordeaux surface thrips Tobago tonka beans Trinidad and Tobago varieties weeds West Africa witchbroom disease young cocoa