EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

A Prelimiary Report on the Development of Avocado as a Tree Crop and on Factors Affecting Yield in Barbados

Robert D. Lucas

No 263705, 11th Annual Meeting, July 2-6, 1973, Cave Hill, Barbados from Caribbean Food Crops Society

Abstract: The development of organized plantings of Avocado is new to Barbados. Prior to 1972, there was only one area where a pure stand of more than twenty trees could be found. Since then, this number has risen by eight. The newly planted areas consist either of grafted plants or seedling trees. The yield per tree is low and this is mainly due to poor management; the Avocado being related to the position of a backyard tree. It is hoped that with the production of an increasing amount of grafted plants, and an improvement in management practices, that ultimately Avocado production in the island will increase.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; International Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7
Date: 1973-07-06
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/263705/files/11_42.pdf (application/pdf)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/263705/files/11_42.pdf?subformat=pdfa (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:cfcs11:263705

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.263705

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 11th Annual Meeting, July 2-6, 1973, Cave Hill, Barbados from Caribbean Food Crops Society
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().

 
Page updated 2025-03-19
Handle: RePEc:ags:cfcs11:263705