31st Annual Meeting, July 10-14, 1995, Dover, Barbados

Recent competition in the agricultural sector due to trade liberalization dictates that there should be innovative approaches to marketing local produce. An alternative m [...]

In the simplest form agricultural marketing can be defined as working with actual and potential buyers of a product to bring about exchanges to meet the requirements of t [...]

Many models for funding agricultural research, development and technology dissemination have been tried As demands on government finances increase, questions are being as [...]

Expérimental trials were conducted to investigate the basic components of water balance (water uptake, transpiration, water accumulation) and their relationship to senes [...]

Two heterorhabditid entomopathogenic nematode species from the Caribbean (Heterorhabditis sp. Dl - JAM34, Heterorhabditis sp. - El Yunque) and one heterorhabditid nematod [...]

Research monitoring bacterial spot of pepper and tomato (caused by Xanthomonas campestris ρ v. vesicatoria) in Barbados over the past 11 years has shown a shift from cop [...]

Anthracnose of crop plants caused by the fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (PENZ) is a common disease in the Caribbean. The fungus has caused considerable decline in [...]

Twenty-one new and three commercial sugar-cane varieties were screened for posssible resistance to the sugar-cane moth borer Diatraea saccharalis at four different sites. [...]