Management of cocoa: Constraints during acquisition and application of pesticides in the humid forest zones of southern Cameroon

Crop Protection

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1159-1164

  Sonwa, Denis J ^a,b   Coulibaly, Ousmane ^c   Weise, Stephan F ^a   Akinwumi Adesina, A ^d   Janssens, Marc J J ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Benin)

^d ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocoa agroforests; Economic liberalization; Management of cocoa plantations; Pesticides; Southern Cameroon

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROFORESTRY; COCOA; DISEASE CONTROL; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUNGICIDE; FUNGUS; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RAINFOREST;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA MEGAKARYA; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 43449106767     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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