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Nestlé’s Cocoa Plan in action, Côte d'Ivoire

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Nestlé’s Cocoa Plan in action, Côte d'Ivoire

Nestlé’s Cocoa Plan in action, Côte d'Ivoire

The R&D centre in Abidjan is developing a new facility that will supply over 10 million seedlings to cocoa farmers. The seedlings will be produced from high-yield and resistant varieties by somatic embryogenesis, which produce replicas of high performance cocoa trees, with high yield and high resistance to disease.

Nestlé’s Cocoa Plan in action, Côte d'Ivoire

  • The R&D centre in Abidjan is developing a new facility that will supply over 10 million seedlings to cocoa farmers. The seedlings will be produced from high-yield and resistant varieties by somatic embryogenesis, which produce replicas of high performance cocoa trees, with high yield and high resistance to disease.
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  • Posted: Nov 28 2011
The Nestlé R&D centre in Abidjan is developing a new facility that will supply over 10 million high-quality plantlets to cocoa farmers in 10 years. The plantlets are produced from high-yield and disease-tolerant varieties through an accelerated propagation method. Together with farmer training and premiums for better quality cocoa, the potential will be to increase yields four-fold and to increase farmer income . This will mean higher incomes for rural communities and a more reliable, higher quality supply to Nestlé, particularly important as 40% of the world’s cocoa comes from Côte d’Ivoire. For more information, visit the Cocoa Plan website