date:Jun 22, 2012
Hershey and cocoa supplier Agroindustrias Unidas de Cacao SA de CV (AMCO), a member of the Ecom Cocoa Group, have set-up the Mexico Cocoa Project, a 10-year project to rejuvenate cocoa growing in the country.
Disease resistant trees
Hershey said that the domestic cocoa crop had been ravaged by the spread of the tree disease Moniliasis, causing beans to be virtually decimated and unusable.
The Ecom and Hershey project will attempt to boost useable yields by training farmers on methods of bes