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CONTRARY to general experience with other world crops, cocoa grown in West Africa had never been shown to respond to fertilizer, for reasons discussed by T. N. Hoblyn1. The recent successful control of capsid pests and the availability of uniform cocoa, however, has now made accurate experimentation possible.
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Hoblyn, T. N., World Crops, 8, No. 9 (Sept. 1956).
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CUNNINGHAM, R., LAMB, J. Cocoa Shade and Manurial Experiment in Ghana. Nature 182, 119 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182119a0
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