High-density planting (HDP) maximizes land productivity. Optimizing cocoa spacing under coconut trees enhances physiological traits and yield potential. Despite cocoa's integration into coconut agroforestry, spacing's impact on cocoa physiology is unclear. Studying this influence...
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Research Article10.9734/acri/2024/v24i9889
Cocoa (Theobroma cacao) is a globally important commercial crop prized for its delicious and versatile beans used in chocolate production. However, cocoa cultivation faces significant challenges, including pest and disease outbreaks that can devastate yields and farmer livelihood...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i71031
An experiment was conducted to investigate the impact of planting density on vegetative and flowering characteristics of cocoa (Theobroma cacao) during its initial growth stage at the Coconut Farm of the Horticultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural Univer...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2024/v30i62091
V. R. Senthamizhkumaran, R. Senthil Raj, B. Santhoshkumar, K. Dakshini, S. Dhanushya, J. Kalaivani, S. Moogambiga, K. Shamini, P. Suvitha & G. Soundaraj·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2026
The rhizosphere represents one of the biochemically active microenvironments in terrestrial ecosystems, where bidirectional fluxes of carbon compounds, ions, enzymes, and signaling molecules govern the nutritional and structural dynamics of plant-soil systems. Extracellular enzym...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i66111
An experiment investigating the impact of different cocoa densities on leaf macro and micronutrient levels within a coconut ecosystem was conducted at the Coconut Farm of the Horticultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. The study e...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2024/v46i72556
The experiment titled "Effect of different spacing levels on yield and yield contributing characters in cocoa" was conducted at the Coconut Farm of the Horticultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. Utilizing a Randomized Block Desig...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2024/v30i62085