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Yeyasso has also taken actions like geo-mapping its farms, setting up tree nurseries and planting about 140,000 new cocoa, fruit and shade trees. But it is also the first globally to trial a new ...

Sitting in the shade of his forest farm in south Sumatra ... which have released a new variant of cocoa that produces more pods per tree. Challenges still remain, said Rajendra Aryal, the FAO ...

MILLIONS OF SEEDLINGS At the new farms, the cocoa trees are grown in the open ... are based on thousands of clones of the same type of tree could leave the future fields vulnerable to diseases ...

If those plans work, the industry's center of gravity could shift back to Brazil, where the cocoa tree is native ... of high yield cocoa farms could be in place in Brazil in 10 years, which ...

Schmidt’s planned 24,000-acre farm is the largest and most innovative ... the industry could shift from West Africa back to Brazil, where the cocoa tree is native. But some cocoa researchers ...