Underplanting oil palm with cocoa in Ghana |
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| Authors: | F M Amoah B N Nuertey K Baidoo-Addo F K Oppong K Osei-Bonsu T E O Asamoah |
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| Institution: | (1) Cocoa Research Institute, P.O. Box 8, Akim-Tafo, Ghana;(2) Present address: Oil Palm Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, P.O. Box 74, Kade, Ghana |
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| Abstract: | Mature oil palms at the Oil Palm Research Institute at Kusi, Ghana were underplanted with cocoa to study the feasibility of mixed cropping of the two crops under West African conditions. The oil palm trees used in this trial were planted in 1970 and had achieved maximum canopy formation. Three triangular spacings of the oil palms used were 8.7, 9.9 and 10.5 m. The cocoa was underplanted in June 1988 at a spacing of 2.4 m triangular using mixed hybrids. There were no significant differences in oil palm yield between plots with cocoa and the controls. There was no appreciable damage to the cocoa trees from falling palm fronds and fruits during harvesting or pruning. Cocoa seedling growth and yield were significantly better under the oil palm spaced at 9.9 or 10.5 m triangular than under oil palm space at 8.7 m triangular. |
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| Keywords: | bunch weight blackpod underplanting growth yield |
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