Twenty Years' Results from a Shade and Fertilizer Trial on Amazon Cocoa (Theobroma cacao) in Ghana

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• Publication year

  1987

• Venue

  Experimental Agriculture

• Publication date

  1987-01-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Biology

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  DOI 10.1017/S0014479700001101
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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