Claim · model-written summary
Harvesting operations at regular two-week intervals are recommended to minimise losses caused by desiccation of damaged cocoa pods.
- Taxon
- cocoa
Theobroma cacaoe0 - Treatment
- harvesting operations at regular intervals of two weekse1
- Outcome
- losses caused by the desiccation of damaged cocoa podse1
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Verbatim
e0“The cocoa mirid (Monalonion dissimulatum) is one of the major pests in cocoa cultivation”
e1“It is recommended to perform harvesting operations at regular intervals of two weeks in order to minimise losses caused by the desiccation of damaged cocoa pods”
Title
Leone Ferrari; Andrez Florez; Fortunato Velásquez; et al. Organic Eprints (International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, and Research Institute of Organic Agriculture) 2014
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect The foreign Beauveria bassiana strain gave the highest adult mortality rate, 63.3%, against the cocoa mirid.
- Intervention effect The foreign Beauveria bassiana strain gave the highest nymph mortality rate, 49.1%, against the cocoa mirid.
- Observation Early-stage cocoa pods were highly susceptible to attack by the cocoa mirid.
- Observation Fully developed cocoa pods showed a rather strong resistance to attacks.
- Association No effect on cocoa wet bean yield was recorded up to about 70% damaged pod tissue.
- Association Damage above 70 % of pod surface had a strong impact on cocoa yield, with yield loss up to 50.4%.
- Association Fully damaged cocoa pods completely desiccated, causing total yield loss.
- Observation Damaged cocoa pods started desiccating.
- Recommendation The foreign Beauveria bassiana strain may be the most efficient option to control the cocoa mirid in the field.