| Botany and
Cultivation |
- The
Coconut Palm in
Florida
(Timothy K. Broschat and Jonathan H. Crane, 2000,Florida Cooperative
Extension Service )
Covers propagation, planting, cultural practices, pest control.
- Coconut
Palms from Seed (20 Kb PDF file)
CTAHR Fact Sheet - Ornamentals and Flowers No. 23
(1996, University of Hawaii at Manoa CTAHR)
Leaflet on coconut seed germination.
- Cocos
nucifera
(Karen Smith, 1997, Ethnobotanical Leaflets)
A short article outlining the history of the use of coconut.
- Insect
Pollination Of Cultivated Crop Plants
(S.E. McGregor, 1976, USDA)
Chapter 5: Tree Fruits and Nuts & Exotic Fruits and Nuts
includes a description of
the coconut and detailed information about the inflorescence and
pollination.
- Niu
(Canoe Plants of Ancient Hawaii)
Niu (coconut), its cultivation, and use in Native Hawaiian culture.
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| Diseases
and Pests |
- Application
of a New Strain of Metarhizium anisopliae (Fungi
Imperfecti) as a Means of Biological Control Against the Coconut Leaf
Hispid, Brontispa longissima (Coleoptera: Hispidae)
in Samoa (7.5 Mb PDF file - very LARGE file)
Land Grant Technical Report No. 27
(Karl J. Marschall, Agnes M. Vargo, and Sipaia Fatuesi, 1995, American
Samoa Community College, Land Grant Program)
Development and use of a fungal strain for biological control of
coconut leaf hispid in American Samoa and Samoa.
- Coconut:
FAO/
IPGRI Technical Guidelines for the Safe Movement of Germplasm
(1.27 Mb PDF file)
(E.A. Frison, C.A.J. Putter and M. Diekmann, 1993, 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
Rhinoceros Beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) (85
Kb PDF file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-4
(Agnes Vargo, 2000, Agricultural Development in the American Pacific
(ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photographs of the insect and its damage.
- 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.
- New
Guinea Sugarcane Weevil (Rhabdoscelus obscurus Boisduval)
(84 Kb PDF file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-9
(Ilse Schreiner, 2000, Agricultural Development in the American Pacific
(ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photograph of the insect and its damage.
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| Harvest and Processing |
- Estimating
the Per-pound Cost of a Dried or Condensed Food Based on Process Yield
and Farm-gate Price (28 Kb PDF file)
Entrepreneur's Toolbox ET-2
(James R. Hollyer and Alvin S. Huang, 1999, University of Hawaii at
Manoa CTAHR)
Outlines the economics of drying and/or condensing food products;
includes tables to calculate costs based on farm gate price per pound
and yield after processing and refuse, and dehydration percentages for
bananas, coconut, and taro.
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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, the number
of trees of bearing age, and number of trees not of bearing age; in PDF
format.
- 1998
Census of Agriculture - Guam
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1993 and 1998; number of farms, pounds harvested, the number
of trees of bearing age, and number of trees not of bearing age; in PDF
format.
- 1999
Census of Agriculture - American Samoa
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1990 and 1999; number of farms, number of trees, 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 trees of bearing
age, number of trees not of bearing age, number of cuerdas
(approximately the same as acres) in production, and number 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, trees of bearing age, trees
not of bearing age, 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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