Current cocoa research in Fiji

Only Amelonado cocoa is now being planted in Fiji. Experiments superimposed on standing cocoa comprise a chupon pruning trial, in which completely unpruned cocoa is yielding remarkably well, a shade and manurial trial in which the unshaded plots are yielding at the rate of 3.000 kg/ha. and showing no response to any fertilizer, a time of fertilizer application trial with an unusual design, and a trial of the effect of fertilizer in the third and fourth years after planting. Specially planted trials comprise a Spacing x Pruning x Establishment Method factorial in which directly sown cocoa has established much better than transplants, two spacing trials (one under coconuts), a trial comparing four species of shade trees, and a series of trials comparing amelonado with seven hybrids of amelonado and various I.C.S. and Sca. clones

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	107834 Quesnel, V.C., 56331 Chalmers, W.S., 68473 Fordham, R., 80036 Iton, E.F. eds., 128523 Vernon, A.J., 122350 Sundaram, S., 5330 Cocoa Research Institute, St. Augustine (Trinidad y Tobago), 4. International Cocoa Research Conference St. Augustine (Trinidad y Tobago) 8-18 Ene 1972, 97646 Murray, D.B., Jones, Earl 81495
Format:	biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	St. Augustine (Trinidad y Tobago) 1972
Subjects:	THEOBROMA CACAO, PODA, SOMBRA, ABONOS, ESPACIAMIENTO, PLANTAS DE SOMBRA, CULTIVO, HIBRIDOS, FIJI,
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