date:Jun 22, 2012
ocoa industry attractive to fertiliser companies.
Study implications
The study was led by Francois Ruf from French agricultural research centre CIRAD and was funded by The Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), chemical company Yara and Mars.
Findings were presented at the 21st World Cocoa Foundation Partnership meeting, an event sponsored by Mars, Kraft Foods and Hershey.
Research was conducted between 2008 and 2011 in the two largest cocoa growing countries, Ghana and Ivory Coast, where cocoa