New data on a cultural control method against coconut lethal yellowing in Ghana
Lethal yellowing disease has been rife in West Africa, especially Ghana, since 1932. In the 1990s, the first operations to fell diseased coconut palms at an early stage showed that this substantially slowed down the spread of the disease. Trial conducted in 1995 showed that early felling of diseased coconut palms, even without prior treatment, considerably slowed down the spread of the disease. Replications of this action in several other plots kept them healthy for many years. These positive results made it possible to obtain funding from Agence française de Développement (AFD) to maintain a "sanitary cordon" in the far West of the Western Region of Ghana, near the Ivorian border, where there is a wide area of coconut palms.
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Format: | article biblioteca |
Language: | eng |
Subjects: | H20 - Maladies des plantes, F01 - Culture des plantes, Cocos nucifera, maladie des plantes, contrôle de maladies, abattage d'arbres, protection des plantes, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1716, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5962, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2327, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2847, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5978, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3253, |
Online Access: | http://agritrop.cirad.fr/522063/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/522063/1/392-Article%20Text-693-1-10-20200509.pdf |
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