| Botany and
Cultivation |
- DPI
Notes: Sweet Potatoes
(Department of Primary Industry Queensland, Australia)
Short reports on sweet potato production.
- Sweet
Potato
(Farmer's Bookshelf, University of Hawaii at Manoa CTAHR)
Sweet potato production information for Hawai'i. Includes cultural
guidelines and management information.
- Sweet
Potato (Ipomoea batatas) Breeding (898 Kb
PDF file)
(Jill E. Wilson, 1988, University of the South Pacific Institute for
Research, Extension and Training in Agriculture (IRETA))
Detailed information on sweet potato crossing, seed production,
cultivar selection, and evaluation; includes line drawings.
- Sweet
Potato (Ipomoea batatas) Planting Material
(375 Kb PDF file)
IRETA Publication 2/88
(Jill E. Wilson, 1988, University of the South Pacific Institute for
Research, Extension and Training in Agriculture (IRETA))
Covers proper planting material selection and handling for improved
sweet potato production; includes line drawings.
- Sweetpotato
Production Guidelines for Hawaii
(Hector Valenzuela, Steven Fukuda, and Alton Arakaki, Knowledge Master,
University of Hawaii at Manoa CTAHR)
Production information from cultivars to culture and management to
harvesting; includes references.
- 'Uala
(Canoe Plants of Ancient Hawaii)
'Uala (sweet potato), its cultivation, and use in Native Hawaiian
culture.
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| Diseases
and Pests |
- Melon
Alphid (Aphis gossypii [Glover]) (72 Kb
PDF file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-10
(Donald Nafus, 2000, Agricultural Development in the American Pacific
(ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photograph of the insect.
- Southern
Blight (Sclerotium rolfsii) (71 Kb PDF
file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-17
(George C. Wall, 2000, Agricultural Development in the American Pacific
(ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photograph of disease symptoms on taro.
- 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.
- Sweet
Potato: Insects and Other Pests and Plant Disease Pathogens
(Knowledge Master, University of Hawaii at Manoa CTAHR)
Information on sweet potato insects and diseases found in Hawaii and
their management and control.
- Sweet
Potato Scab (Elsinoe batatas [Sawada] Viegas
& Jenkins) (61 Kb PDF file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-19
(Florendo Quebral, 2000, Agricultural Development in the American
Pacific (ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photograph of disease symptoms.
- White
Rust of Kangkong (Albugo ipomae-panduratae [Schw.]
Swing) (80 Kb PDF file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-23
(Florendo Quebral, 2000, Agricultural Development in the American
Pacific (ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photograph of disease symptoms.
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| Marketing and Statistics |
- 1997
Census of Agriculture (USA)
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Summary agricultural statistics for the entire country as well as
statistics for each state; table 27 (volume 1, chapter 2) includes
production by state for 1992 and 1997; number of farms, number of
acres, and bushels produced; in PDF format.
- 1998
Census of Agriculture - Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for1990 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.
- Puerto
Rico Census of Agriculture
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data 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.
- Statistics
of Hawaii Agriculture
(Hawaii Agricultural Statistics Service)
Data for 1999 through 2003 by county; harvested acres, yield per acre,
total production in pounds, farm price per pound, and value of sales;
available in both HTML and PDF formats.
- 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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