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HAZELNUT PRODUCTIVITY IN NORTHERN PORTUGAL: AN ECONOMETRIC APPROACH
Article number
686_74
Pages
547 – 556
Language
English
Abstract
Several commercial hazelnut cultivars located in northern Portugal were evaluated for growth and nut production from 1980 onwards.
In a multistemmed trial containing eleven cultivars fruit production only became meaningful in the 6th year, when trees produced about 1.59 t/ha.
Plant growth was very varied, the smallest bushes being Daviana and L. d’Espagne, which can be cultivated at 6 x 4 m under local conditions.
The most vigorous cultivars were Segorbe and F. Coutard which require larger spacings at around 8 x 6 m.
In this paper, we apply the Hodrick-Prescott filter to decompose the annual production of the eleven cultivars into their trend (long-run yield) and cyclical (fluctuations around the trend) components for the 1985-2001 period.
The results suggest that the eleven cultivars could be classed into four groups: a first group that clusters the 6 most productive cultivars: Butler, F. de Coutard, Morell, Segorbe, Gunslebert and R. Piemont; a second that groups the medium-productive Grossal, L. dEspagn and M. Bollwiller; a third represented by the cultivar Ennis, evidencing a precocious decline in production, which may be a sign of lack of adaptation to local conditions; and a fourth, occupied by the pollinizer Daviana, which demonstrates a low rate of production and a marked cyclicity.
The cyclical variation may have been due to variations in climatic conditions during pollination periods, which may also have caused different rates of blanks.
In a multistemmed trial containing eleven cultivars fruit production only became meaningful in the 6th year, when trees produced about 1.59 t/ha.
Plant growth was very varied, the smallest bushes being Daviana and L. d’Espagne, which can be cultivated at 6 x 4 m under local conditions.
The most vigorous cultivars were Segorbe and F. Coutard which require larger spacings at around 8 x 6 m.
In this paper, we apply the Hodrick-Prescott filter to decompose the annual production of the eleven cultivars into their trend (long-run yield) and cyclical (fluctuations around the trend) components for the 1985-2001 period.
The results suggest that the eleven cultivars could be classed into four groups: a first group that clusters the 6 most productive cultivars: Butler, F. de Coutard, Morell, Segorbe, Gunslebert and R. Piemont; a second that groups the medium-productive Grossal, L. dEspagn and M. Bollwiller; a third represented by the cultivar Ennis, evidencing a precocious decline in production, which may be a sign of lack of adaptation to local conditions; and a fourth, occupied by the pollinizer Daviana, which demonstrates a low rate of production and a marked cyclicity.
The cyclical variation may have been due to variations in climatic conditions during pollination periods, which may also have caused different rates of blanks.
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Authors
A. Santos, L. Correia, J. Rebelo
Keywords
Corylus avellana L., filbert, production, cultivars, detrending, time series
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