Table 5 Mean values ± SEM of shade tree carbon, cacao tree carbon, total carbon and their CO₂ equivalents in ten cacao growing districts in the Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo and Western regions of Ghana (numbers in parenthesis are standard errors of the means)

5.05 ± 1.40^ab

5.84 ± 0.91^a

10.9 ± 1.56^b

40.0

11.8 ± 1.99^a

6.77 ± 0.68^a

18.5 ± 2.12^ab

67.9

2.91 ± 0.95^b

10.2 ± 1.31^a

13.2 ± 2.07^ab

48.4

7.70 ± 1.29^ab

8.02 ± 0.87^a

15.7 ± 0.87^ab

57.6

8.60 ± 1.92^ab

7.00 ± 0.87^a

15.6 ± 2.40^ab

57.2

9.17 ± 2.33^ab

7.79 ± 0.74^a

15.4 ± 2.58^ab

56.5

5.04 ± 1.35^ab

7.58 ± 0.47^a

12.6 ± 1.68^ab

46.2

15.6 ± 2.89^a

6.28 ± 0.82^a

23.4 ± 3.23^a

85.9

9.29 ± 1.41^a

8.65 ± 0.70^a

17.9 ± 1.45^ab

65.7

8.02 ± 0.65^ab

6.40 ± 0.61^a

11.5 ± 1.19^b

42.2