Description of pests in cacao vivarium in Milagro canton from different sources of information

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This article aims i) to review the state of the art in the knowledge of phytosanitary problems reported in the initial stages of cacao cultivation in Ecuador, and ii) to describe the presence of such problems in Milagro vivariums. The sources of information were mixed, and these varied according to geographic scale. Information at the country level came from books or articles; in contrast, primary data to identify fungi and information provided by local farmers interviewed to describe local particularities, were used. At the same time, secondary data from undergraduate theses, institutional technical reports and press articles were used. Secondary information, with low visibility but available in digital repositories, contains valuable information for local knowledge. The damages caused by fungi and by arthropods (sensu latu pests) were grouped by symptom and causal agent. Symptoms of abiotic origin are also included. The …

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2017

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