Rural Voices | 6 July 2020

Thank you, “cocoa doctors”

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Chocolate comes in all shapes and forms, but it all needs one vital ingredient. Cocoa. A decade ago it was predicted that by 2020 the world would have shortfall of one million tonnes a year.

IFAD and its partners in Indonesia set up a scheme to train local small estate farmers to be cocoa doctors. Improving the health of their plants and, in the process, the economic prospects for local farmers in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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Thank you, “cocoa doctors” - IFAD

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