Changes in the climate at Harbel, Liberia (Record no. 55334)
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| fixed length control field | 02234nam a2200145Ia 4500 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Broderick C E |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Changes in the climate at Harbel, Liberia |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Biological Agriculture & Horticulture |
| Year of publication | 1995 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 133-149 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Source Year: 1996 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Liberias climate, with the absence of South American leaf blight disease [Microcyclus ulei], was the major factor suiting the cultivation of Hevea brasiliensis for rubber when commercial plantations were set up at Harbel in 1926. However, the weather was unusally hot and dry during the latter 1980s and concerns about fires, tree survival and economically sustainable yields surfaced. The objective of this study was to analyse accumulated climatic data, find out if there had been significant changes in the weather at Harbel and determine weather Hevea rubber cultivation is threatened. Metrological data collected over 53 years were available and these are tabulated and analysed. The data showed a trend of annual rainfall decline. The number of days with rain per year also declined and the average temperature at Harbel rose by some 0.72 C over the 53-year period. Number of hours of sunlight per day, as measured by the Stokes sunshine recorder, also increased over the years. The data were found to be accurate and the manifested trends were very clear. Indications are that the absolute changes in precipitation and other climatic factors do not preclude the cultivation of Hevea at Harbel. Natural cyclic climatic changes were noted, but deforestation and other events affecting climatic changes were also cited in efforts to explain the noted changes. The implications for Hevea cultivation are that management practices will be critical in ensuing years if economically sustainable yields are to be maintained. It is further recommended that every effort should be exerted in securing and maintaining continuous meteorological data at Herbel and other locations in Liberia. Such information is evidently critical in the decision-making process for Hevea production and other agriculturally-oriented projects in Liberia and other developing countries. |
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| Journals | RRII Library | RRII Library | Soils and agonomy | 17/12/2021 | Volume 12, Issue 2 | Journals |