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Title Review - Crop protection strategies for major diseases of cocoa, coffee and cashew in Nigeria
Full text http://www.bioline.org.br/abstract?id=jb05027; http://hdl.handle.net/1807/6604
Date 2005
Author(s) T. O. Adejumo
Abstract A great percentage of people in the developing countries are engaged in agriculture, but the yields of their produce are low due to diseases that plague their crops. In Nigeria, crop protection measures that are cheap, simple, cost-effective and sustainable are desirable to combat Phytophthora pod rot (black pod) and cocoa swollen shoot virus diseases of cocoa, coffee leaf rust and coffee berry diseases, inflorescence blight disease of cashew in order to make farming profitable and sustainable. Disease control strategies include the use of resistant cultivars, chemicals, biological, botanicals, cultural, physical controls and application of biotechnology, each of which is discussed in this paper.
Subject(s) Crop protection, cocoa, coffee, cashew, diseases; Crop protection, cocoa, coffee, cashew, diseases
Language en; en_US
Publisher Academic Journals
Relation http://www.academicjournals.org/AJB/; http://www.bioline.org.br/jb
Type of publication journal
Format 110905 bytes; application/pdf
Rights Copyright 2005 - Academic Journals
Identifier African Journal of Biotechnology (ISSN: 1684-5315) Vol 4 Num 2
Repository Toronto - University of Toronto
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