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Coconut production : present status and priorities for research

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  • "The coconut is primarily a smallholders' crop with a recorded history of cultivation going back for more than 3,000 years and now thriving throughout the humid tropics. Every part of the palm is utilized and it is an important component of intercropping and multi-storey cropping systems. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the coconut crop to non-specialists, discuss the constraints to increased productivity, the current status of research, and the priorities for further research in a number of disciplines. The basis of every improvement in crop productivity is good quality planting material and this results from long-term breeding programs aimed at genetic improvement followed by efficient propagation. The development of precocious, high-yielding ... hybrids, and seedgarden techniques to mass-produce them, has greatly increased the yield potential of current planting material. Nevertheless, as a result of the long breeding cycle, very few generations have been achieved, and coconut breeding is still in its infancy. The current state of genetic conservation and breeding techniques and results are described. The constraints mentioned above in part explain the long-sustained attempts to obtain vegetative propagation. The status of this research is discussed in a paper which described both embryo and tissue culture. Agronomic research, like breeding, is very time-consuming, and even the responses of mature palms take several years to fully measure. The same problem constrains the transfer of technology to ..."

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  • "Coconut production : present status and priorities for research"
  • "Coconut production: present status and priorities for research"

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