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The authors recommend climate-smart cocoa policies incorporating sustainable management and institutional and socioeconomic factors.
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- cocoa
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e0“it is necessary to formulate climate-smart cocoa production policies that consider sustainable farm management practices, institutional factors, as well as socio-economic factors to boost cocoa production”
Title
Cocoa production under climate variability and farm management challenges: Some farmers' perspective
Neville N. Suh; Ernest L. Molua Journal of Agriculture and Food Research 2022. doi:10.1016/j.jafr.2022.100282
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Association Farm size, labour, capital and education significantly affected cocoa output in ordinary least squares analysis.
- Association Pest and disease spraying and removal of infested pods, mistletoe and water shoots significantly affected cocoa output.
- Association Chi-square analysis linked gender, education, farming experience and capital significantly with cocoa production under climate variability.
- Association Chi-square analysis linked pest spraying, infested-pod removal, pruning and ripe-pod harvesting significantly with cocoa production.
- Observation Observed cocoa yields were significantly below maximum attainable yields.
- Association Cocoa yield increase was primarily attributed to expansion of harvested area.