Cacao: A Bibliography on the Plant and Its Culture and Primary Processing of the Bean

Roberta C. Watrous

No 319335, USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture

Abstract: Excerpts from the Preface: The demand for cacao products has greatly increased during the twentieth century. At the same time diseases and pests have threatened one after another of the cacao-producing areas of the world. It has therefore become essential to reexamine every factor which might have a bearing on the problem of maintaining and increasing production, whether by improvement of methods, by seeking remedies for specific ills, or by finding areas suitable for new plantings. In addition to experiments and research conducted by governmental and private agencies in the various cacao-growing countries, broad programs of research under cooperative sponsorship were undertaken as early as 1930 at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, and more recently at the West African Cacao Research Institute, Tafo, Gold Coast, and the Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Turrialba, Costa Rica. This bibliography is intended to serve students, research workers, and others concerned with the problems involved in growing healthy and productive cacao trees and in processing the beans to meet the standards set by manufacturers of cocoa and chocolate. It includes, in addition to general material on the culture of cacao in various parts of the world and certain special aspects of culture, references on the botany and pathology of the plant, its insect and other enemies, and both practical and scientific aspects of the primary processing of the cacao bean.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58
Date: 1950-10
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.319335

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