Annual Report, 1985-1926
Dade, H.A.
Reptl Agric. Dept. Govt. Gold Coast for the period to 1926, 1926. 33-36
1926
Document Number: 383148
A canker disease, although of infrequent occurrence in the Gold Coast, has caused severe damage to a large number of cacao trees in certain localities subject to high floods and other conditions which render them unsuited to the growing of cacao. The cause is as yet unknown, for though the symptoms correspond exactly to those described elsewhere as due to Phytophthora faberi, attempts to isolate this organism from the cankers have failed.