| Botany and
Cultivation |
- Cassava
(Farmer's Bookshelf, University of Hawaii at Manoa CTAHR)
Cassava production information for Hawai'i including cultural
guidelines and management
information.
- Cassava
Production in Miami-Dade County Florida (43 Kb PDF file)
(Stephen O'Hair and Mary Lamberts, Florida Cooperative Extension
Service)
Covers planting and cultural practices.
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| Diseases
and Pests |
- Bacterial
Blight of Mendioka (Cassava) (Xanthomonas campestris pv.
manihotis) (68 Kb PDF file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-1
(George C. Wall, 2000, Agricultural Development in the American Pacific
(ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photograph of disease symptoms.
- Cassava:
FAO/IPGRI Technical Guidelines for the Safe Movement of Germplasm
(1.19 Mb PDF file)
(E.A. Frison and E. Feliu, 1991, International Plant Genetic Resources
Institute (IPGRI))
Provides "crop-specific technical guidelines that provide relevant
information on disease indexing and other procedures that will help
ensure phytosanitary safety when germplasm is moved internationally."
- Coconut
Scale (Aspidiotus destructor Signoret) (88
Kb PDF file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-5
(Donald Nafus, 2000, Agricultural Development in the American Pacific
(ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photographs of the insect.
- Striped
Mealybug (Ferrisia virgata [Cockerell])
(68 Kb PDF file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-18
(Ilse Schreiner, 2000, Agricultural Development in the American Pacific
(ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photographs of the insect.
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| Marketing and Statistics |
- 1998
Census of Agriculture - Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1990 and 1998; number of farms, pounds harvested, and number
of acres in production; in PDF format.
- 1998
Census of Agriculture - Guam
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1993 and 1998; number of farms, pounds harvested, and number
of acres in production; in PDF format.
- 1999
Census of Agriculture - American Samoa
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1990 and 1999; number of farms, number of acres in production,
pounds harvested for sale and for consumption, and the value in dollars
of the fruit harvested for sale and for consumption; in PDF format.
- Puerto
Rico Census of Agriculture
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1993 and 1998; number of farms, number of cuerdas
(approximately the same as acres) in production, and hundredweight
harvested; additional tables provide market value information and
detailed information on production by district; in PDF format.
- Virgin
Islands of the United States: 1998 Census of Agriculture - Area Data
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1993 and 1998; number of farms, number of acres, and pounds
harvested; in PDF format.
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| Reference and Research Tools |
- Free Public Databases
- AGRICOLA:
1970-present
(U.S. National Agricultural Library)
Citations, most with abstracts, to journal articles, books, theses,
technical reports, and other publications in agriculture and related
areas such as nutrition, biotechnology, and botany.
- AGRIS
1975 - present
(FAO)
International database covering agricultural sciences and technology
containing citations for conventional and non-conventional ("grey")
literature.
- PubMed
(Medline) 1966 - present
(U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Citations, most with abstracts, for journal articles in biomedicine
including nutrition.
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