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
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Format: | biblioteca |
Language: | eng |
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St. Augustine (Trinidad y Tobago)
1972
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Subjects: | THEOBROMA CACAO, PODA, SOMBRA, ABONOS, ESPACIAMIENTO, PLANTAS DE SOMBRA, CULTIVO, HIBRIDOS, FIJI, |
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Summary: | 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 |
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