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英语课

By Efam Dovi
Accra
26 October 2006 





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Cocoa trees in a plantation in Ghana
 
 


 
 
 



Ghana is battling with the spread of a cocoa virus that has been diminishing yields, according to agricultural experts. The West African nation is the second-largest exporter of cocoa - the main ingredient in chocolate. A new variety of cocoa plant, developed in Ghana, offers hope to reduce the ill effects of the virus.


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The so-called swollen-shoot virus is a major problem affecting cocoa production in Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria and Ivory Coast.


In Ghana, an estimated 200 million cocoa trees have been destroyed by the disease in the last 50 years.


But a new cocoa plant breed, developed by Ghana's Cocoa Research Institute, is proving to be tolerant to the disease.


Kweku Abeka-Ewusi, the technical manager of the swollen-shoot virus control unit - a division of Ghana's cocoa industry regulatory body, Cocobod, says the new breed is welcomed by the farmers.


"There are two major factors which make the farmers like it - first is that it is early bearing. It takes a minimum of two years to come into fruition. It is also high yielding, with the old varieties, it will take between five to six years," he explained.


A recent survey by the Ghana Cocoa Research Institute revealed that between five to ten percent of the country's cocoa tree stock is infected with the disease. It has also spread to almost all the regions of the country, including the western region, where more than 50 percent of the country's cocoa is produced.


Abeka-Ewusi says efforts to combat the disease have been difficult and costly 2. He says the use of agro-chemicals to treat the virus has not been successful.


"The only effective method now is to uproot 3 the infected tree with their contact trees," he said. "We suspect that those in contact may be harboring the disease, latent infections, we normally go over every six months to ensure that even if they harbor the disease and they are showing we retreat them, so the effort is to cut it and replant with the approved material."


Two major projects, undertaken in Ghana between 1995 and 2005, have helped to treat 64 percent of diseased farms, 82 percent of which have been rehabilitated 4 with the new breed.


Ghana's cocoa exports for the 2005/2006 season exceeded the projected figure of 550,000 metric tons by almost 40 percent.


Experts now believe this solution could soon be applied 5 in other West African cocoa producing countries.



n.种植园,大农场
  • His father-in-law is a plantation manager.他岳父是个种植园经营者。
  • The plantation owner has possessed himself of a vast piece of land.这个种植园主把大片土地占为己有。
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
v.连根拔起,拔除;根除,灭绝;赶出家园,被迫移开
  • The family decided to uproot themselves and emigrate to Australia.他们全家决定离开故土,移居澳大利亚。
  • The trunk of an elephant is powerful enough to uproot trees.大象的长鼻强壮得足以将树木连根拔起。
改造(罪犯等)( rehabilitate的过去式和过去分词 ); 使恢复正常生活; 使恢复原状; 修复
  • He has been rehabilitated in public esteem. 公众已恢复对他的敬重。
  • Young persons need to be, wherever possible, rehabilitated rather than punished. 未成年人需要受到尽可能的矫正而不是惩罚。
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
学英语单词
accessory punishment
Acer shangszeense
aitchesons
Amberlac
angle-between-half-power-points
articulus incudomallearis
Aruwimi
automize, automized
Avarians
axillary sac (or axillary air-sac)
beam cross section
bertelsen
Bianouan
big if
blendy
brachiocrural
Brunello di Montalcino
cannonades
Ceylonocotyle
chimaeras
chondrosternoplasty
church-work
Curvatura cervicalis
Cyrtoniodus
deus otiosus
don
downender
DVR-MS
electrical excitability
esakis
exception process entry descriptor
falafels
fine-structure band
floor relay
flower-painting
fucoid marking
getton
glass-toppeds
Henry Wood
Ichthyole
idle wheels
improvably
inducive
initial failure period
internal composition
interosseous cuneocuboid ligament
isostructure
jellicle
launch pad
lead a loose life
left lymphatic duct
lock-gate
look through
lose one's heart to
lymphotome
Melhania hamiltoniana
member in flexure
micronized talc
mosqueful
mRNA(guanine-N7)-methyltransferase
ne'er
NEAA
nucellar perisperm
oil tank hopper
pansexually
pauropodas
pollen.com
profit from direct private investment
proportional integral and differential action
purobitumen
pushing body
quantum biochemistry
ration allowance
resection of coarctation of aorta with anastomosis
retractable arbor
ripple clouds
saltational speciation
saluti
scratch-coated
security moms
self-catering
Shevli
Spiridens
steam-bath
stichochrome
stravaiges
stroma medullary tissue
tape-delayed
tarmacadamed
thermodynamics of metallurgy
tracking trend-cycle movement
transgredient
trichiurus japonicus
troleandomycin
tungsten contamination
turning motion
untoiling
upstream garage
vision-mixer
Wallis Warfield Windsor
wheatbirds
wry-neck