Cocoa And Chocolate
The Tree, The Bean The Beverage
Forfatter: Arthur W. Knapp
År: 1923
Forlag: Sir Isaac pitman & Sons
Sted: London
Sider: 147
UDK: 663.91 Kna
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40 THE COCOA AND CHOCOLATE INDUSTRY
tap roots should not be bent, that hair rootlets should not be clumped, and that the plants should be in the middle of the holes.”1
The Question of Shade. In the chapter on history it was mentioned that from the earliest times it was the
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DIAGRAM SHOWING LAYOUT OF CACAO PLANTATION
habit of those who cultivated cacao to plant shade trees. It is agreed that the young plant just out of the nursery requires protection, and for this purpose the interplanting of bananas and tanias, or bananas and cassava, or pigeon pea (Cajanus indicus) is effective. The planter has to wait and watch more or less nervously for five years before the cacao is ready for harvesting,
1 From the Kenya Graphic, reprinted in Tropical Life, June> 1922.