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Jamaica Daily News

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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After extensive research, the Malayan Dwarf was found to be highly resistant to the lethal yellowing disease, hence its importance to the Jamaican coconut industry as a replacement for the Jamaica Tall, 1959 - 1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073E/21
Scope and Contents

250 x 200 mm. Daily News photograph by Charles Kinkead.

Dates: 1959 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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This familiar sight along the Jamaican countryside shows the effect of the lethal yellowing disease which devastated the coconut industry in the 1970s. The Jamaica Tall as a commercially viable variety of coconut was completely wiped out, 1959 - 1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073E/20
Scope and Contents

250 x 200 mm. Daily News photograph by Charles Kinkead.

Dates: 1959 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).