Organic banana production in Ecuador: Its implications on black Sigatoka development and plant-soil nutritional status

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 297-306

  Jimenez, Maria ^a   Van der veken, Lieselot ^b   Neirynck, Heleen ^b   Rodríguez, Helga ^a   Ruiz, Omar ^a   Swennen, Rony ^b  

^a ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DEL LITORAL   (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Banana; Black Sigatoka; Disease symptoms; Liquid and solid bio fertilizers; Mycosphaerella fijiensis; Nutritional status; Organic production

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL TRADE; COMMODITY PRICE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; DISEASE CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FRUIT PRODUCTION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PLANTATION; PROFITABILITY; SOCIAL IMPACT;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

FUNGI; MYCOSPHAERELLA FIJIENSIS;

EID: 37049002439     PISSN: 17421705     EISSN: 17421713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742170507001895     Document Type: Article

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