THE EIGHT NEW COCOA HYBRIDS
Cocoa was introduced by the Portuguese into the Gulf of Guinea from where it got to Nigeria around the last quarter of the nineteenth
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Tips on Cocoa
A cup of cocoa a day may keep the doctor away
- Cocoa intake reduces frequency of malaria
- Cocoa fights fatique
- Cocoa is the number one antioxidant food on the planet
- Cocoa keeps heart attack at bay
- Coco compound arrests breast cancer
- Cocoa can help prevent diabetes
- Theobromine: a cocoa derivative arrests persistent coughs
- Cocoa is the highest natural source of magnesium
- Cocoa boosts libido
Tips on Kola
CRIN has developed:
- Hybrids that produce in 5 years with an an annual average yield
of about 2,000 nuts/tree/year of marketable sizes (12-15g) - Vegetative propagated materials that starts fruiting in about
three years; - A natural insecticide, spindor dust (a.i. spinosard (0.125%))
for protection of kolanuts in storage against kola weevil,
Bolanogastis kolae - Kola pod husks with organic materials such as poultry droppings
as organic fertilizers.
Tips on coffee
CRIN has developed:
- 64 varieties of coffea Arabica in Germplasm for genetic improvement
- A socioeconomically acceptable method of rehabilitating
old coffee plantations with overgrown trees through
coppicing at 30cm above ground level to rejuvinate old plants - Management techniques of plant geometry by de-capping to a
height of 1.5m to facilitate harvesting - The use of half node stem cutting for propagating robusta coffee
- Open rooted method of propagating and transporting stem cuttings of
robusta coffee - A method of termite control on coffee by spraying the waste water from
cassava processed for '' fufu'' production - Organic manure made from chromolaena odoratum (siam weed), cow dung,
grasses and maize stovers as effective inorganic fertilizers
Tips on Tea
CRIN has these:
- Germplasm of 24 highland clonal tea genotypes introduced from Kenya
- Germplasm of high yielding lowland tea varieties from China
- A new rapid method for determining the field pluck (harvest) quality for tea
- DNA molecular characterization of 20 clones, which could assist in parental
selection for subsequent hybridization - Recommendation on appropriate fertilizer application on test
Tips on cashew
CRIN has developed:
- Seeds and seedlings of 25 superior genotypes, high
yielding (10=13kg/tree/year) with superior flavour - Appropriate site/soil selection packages for cashew
cultivation and effective fertilizer regime to correct mineral
deficiencies - Effective seed propagation methods, establishment, spacing,
pruning and inter-cropping - Clonal and vegetatively propagated cashew as planting
materials through marcotting - Suitable fungicide and insecticide mixtures to control
incidene of ravaging inflorescence blight diseases
CRIN Products