The European Union funded project, through its EU-STREIT programme, has been helping farmers in isolated areas to improve ...

SODEN and Dutch fund CFM to build 76 MW biomass plant using farm byproducts • Cocoa and rubber waste to fuel grid-connected renewable power and biofuels • Govt targets 45% renewables in energy mix by ...

Black pod rot and cocoa pod borers still damage trees. And not every farmer is ready to change. “It’s not perfect, but we’re getting there,” Charles said. “Every training we hold, every question a ...

Image Cocoa pods at a farm in the village of Binao in Ivory Coast in 2022.Credit...Andrew Caballero-Reynolds for The New York Times Before this week, more than 30 African economies had been ...

Cacao pods are typically covered in plastic sleeves to protect them from pests like cocoa pod borers, which lay eggs in the pods. Additionally, he said that the company is looking to expand its ...

But like many other farmers in the region, the road to success was troubled with challenges, particularly from the cocoa pod borer (CPB) pest, which devastated their crops. “We had problems like cocoa ...

He said this is to allow for new shoots to grow, which will then be budded with the clones from the nursery to create new trees of high yield and resistance to diseases such as the cocoa pod borer. He ...

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Citing data from the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), Solpot said ... He added that the cacao pod borer, an insect that attacks cacao, could result in the total damage of plants if it ...

most cocoa farmers are still not harvesting enough pods for the market due to the Cocoa Pod Borer (CPB). PNG’s cocoa industry has been in decline since the outbreak of the CPB in 2008. Like many parts ...