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Participatory Research for Systems Analysis

Prototyping for a Costa Rican Banana Plantation

^a Lab. for Soil Sci. and Geol., P.O. Box 37, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands
^b Inversiones Orlich S.A., San José, Costa Rica

View larger version (60K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1. The location of banana plantations in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica, and the location of the La Rebusca plantation.

View larger version (65K): [in a new window]   Fig. 2. Soil survey of the La Rebusca plantation.

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   Fig. 3. Temporal variation in key soil properties, and the associated standard deviations for the La Rebusca plantation.

View larger version (57K): [in a new window]   Fig. 4. Variation in bunch size for January–February 2000.

View larger version (54K): [in a new window]   Fig. 5. Variation in the potential risk for nematocide leaching.

View larger version (25K): [in a new window]   Fig. 6. Research chains for (A) fertilizer and (B) nematocide leaching risk using the scheme developed by Hoosbeek and Bryant (1992) and Bouma and Hoosbeek (1996).