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Appendix L: Witches' Broom Disease Outbreak in Brazil and Control Attempts: Success and Failure in Bahia, Brazil (1989–2009)
Pages 305-306

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... Loss caused by diseases, which amounts to 30 percent of the total annual crop, is the major limiting factor to cocoa production. One of the consequences of globalization is the increase in the movement of people and vegetative material between producer countries, a phenomenon that contributes to the spread of plant diseases in a very short time span (Lopes et al., 2007)
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...  The third measure, which is most widely used in producer countries having the disease and attempted in Brazil, was the phytosanitary pruning. This is quite efficient when the outbreak of this fungal disease severity is low.
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