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The Effects of Plucking Policies on the Yield of Tea in Malawi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

R. W. Palmer-Jones
R. W. Palmer-Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Institute for Agricultural Research, PMB 1044, Zaria, Nigeria
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Summary

There have been conflicting reports of the effects of different plucking (harvesting) policies on yields of tea in Malawi. An experiment is reported which separates the effects of plucking round length from those of plucking standard, and is compared with the results of simulating those plucking policies. Between the experiment and the simulation the conflict is resolved, and the validity of the experiment and simulation model are thereby enhanced. The immediate practical implications of the work are limited because of the unquantified relations between plucking standard and quality and grade out-turn of made tea.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 1977 , pp. 43 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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