Indonesia’s cocoa farmers work with businesses to fight the bitter impact of climate change
Indonesia is the third-largest producer of cocoa in the world, behind Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana, according to the United ...
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Cocoa Farmers Uproot Their Plants Despite Record Prices
less-productive trees and plant new ones to increase production, especially as farms are ravaged by diseases. Like other cocoa farmers, Mensah has diversified: He now grows cassava and maize ...
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Cocoa’s Surge Is Drawing Africa’s Farmers Back to the Bean
The lag between the time it takes to plant and harvest a cocoa ... Adenowuro says: “We want to rejuvenate the farm and to take a bite of the rising cocoa prices.” ...
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Hand pollination helps cocoa farmers offset climate harm
climate-resilient varieties of cocoa plants. In Indonesia, cocoa production is experiencing declining yields, partly due to climate change, notes Banerjee. "The study's findings suggest that ...
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University farm commercialises cocoa budwood
THE PNG University of Technology Farm has nurtured 10,000 cocoa hybrid and clones to be distributed to Wafi-Golpu Joint ...
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Indonesia’s cocoa farmers work with businesses to fight the bitter impact of climate change
Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like Santoso ... Sitting in the shade of his forest farm in south Sumatra, 3 miles from a national park where Sumatran tigers and rhinos roam, farmer ...