Over the last 11 years, a viable cocoa industry has begun to take shape in Vietnam and Mars was involved with this development since the beginning. Last year, the nation exported about 3,000 tons of fermented cocoa. We’ve been working closely with the Vietnam Cocoa Development projects and cocoa farmers in Vietnam during these years to test and define the best cocoa fermentation and
Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus (CSSV) has wreaked havoc on cocoa crops throughout much of West Africa and continues to inflict serious economic and human hardship in cocoa-growing countries. As part of our research and collaborative efforts to better manage and combat this disease, Mars Chocolate and ICRAF recently held a regional workshop on CSSV in Accra, Ghana.
The weeklong workshop brought together more than
