Prior Art in Palm Oil Plantations -- Central Americar

[Peter Singfield <snkm@btl.net>]

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If of interest in regards to prior art in regards to oil tree plantations.


Peter / Belize

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The History of Oil Palm Breeding in the United Fruit Company 
D.L. Richardson

ASD Oil Palm Papers N° 11, 1-22, 1995

The early history of the oil palm in Central America is largely the history
of the crop in the United Fruit Company. Eventhough the major interest of
the United Fruit Company since the last years of the 19th century has been
the production and exportation of bananas, an interest in crop
diversification is long standing. 

A. Preston and L.D. Baker started to ship bananas from Caribbean Islands
and Honduras in 1876, and in 1884 Preston formed the Boston Fruit Company
for the same purpose.  In 1872 the first Gros Michel bananas were
cultivated in Costa Rica, and the first small Costa Rican shipments of
bananas to New Orleans and New York occurred in 1879.  Minor C. Keith
formed the Tropical Trading and Transport Company in the early 1890's. In
1898 the banana distributor handling Keith's bananas went out of business
and Keith was seeking another distributor. In March 1899, the United Fruit
Company was formed by a fusion of Preston's and Keith's interests. 

In the first two decades of the 20th century, the consolidation of the
banana business in Honduras was troubled by political unrest, and in Costa
Rica it was strongly opposed by the oligarchy of coffee growers. In 1923
United Fruit formed a Department of Tropical Research, which was located in
La Lima, Honduras from 1926. In this same year the Lancetilla Experiment
Station was founded near Tela, Honduras. The introduction of new tropical
crops for evaluation in Central America was one of the primary goals of the
Lancetilla Botanical Garden, as it was later called. Renown American
botanist Wilson Popenoe was the Superintendent of Lancetilla for its first
14 years, and the oil palm collection was managed by Alfred F. Butler
during the same period. 

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The rest is very explicit in regards to the introduction of palm oil
plantations to Central and South Americas.

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