Claim · model-written summary
Only fifteen of 50 attacked cocoa pods reached maturity.
- Taxon
- Cocoa
Theobroma cacaot0 - Organ / stage
- podse1
- Interactor
- Green and Brown Bugt0pest
- Outcome
- reach maturitye1
- Value
- fifteen (15) out of 50e1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Green and Brown Bug Attacks on Cocoa”
e1“only fifteen (15) out of 50 attacked pods reach maturity”
Title
Doh Franceline; Coulibaly Tenon; Kone Siela; et al. American Journal of BioScience 2026. doi:10.11648/j.ajbio.20261402.12
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Average bug attack rate on cocoa cherries was 66.66%.
- Observation Average bug attack rate on cocoa pods was 62%.
- Observation Attacked cocoa pods aborted completely after two months.
- Observation The bug attacks led to a 36.38% loss in cocoa bean mass.
- Observation The authors conclude the impact of green and brown bug attacks on cocoa is very significant.
- Recommendation The authors recommend better management of these bugs to reduce their impact on cocoa production for optimal yield.