CAPSID PESTS AS "COCOA MOSQUITOES:" A STUDY IN CASH CROP INFESTATION AND CONTROL IN GHANA, 1910-1965

From: Journal of Third World Studies | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Danquah, Frances | Copyright information

It is standard historical knowledge that in the 1870s cocoa cultivation seized the imagination of Ghanaian farmers whose productivity eventually elevated the country to the world's topmost cocoa producer.1 What is less known, however, is that plant pests also were actively ravaging the cocoa trees in Ghana's rainforest.2 The severest damage arose from capsid insects which routinely perforated cocoa stalks giving them a Awarty and gnarled appearance." The colonial Department of Agriculture not...

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