too thick
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When palms are too thick
Is your coconut plantation overcrowded with palms? If so, you can thin down your groves with arboricides.
Suitable chemicals are an 80 per cent. W/V sodium arsenite solution, or a 50 per cent. a.e. 2,4-D amine solution applied at the rate of 30 ccs in a single auger hole in the base of the palm trunks.
These arboricides were recom mended at the recent SPC tech nical meeting on coconut produc tion at Rangiroa.
Rangiroa is the site of a French research station investi gating the problems of coconut production on atolls.