Cocoa In New Guinea
p. 76 · Read in the full issue
WRITING from London, Mr. J. E. Nixon Westwood makes some interesting comments on the attempt to establish the cocoa growing industry in New Guinea.
The writer emphasises the need for proper training of planters who undertake this particular crop. “Cocoa is an entirely dif ferent production to copra or rubber,” he says. “Temperatures, altitudes, winds and soil sanitation take a far greater toll than in either of the two above mentioned.
Diseases and how to treat them, pruning, cutting back and picking are all jobs for practical men, which take years to learn."