At the moment the only way to preserve the diversity of cocoa plants is to grow entire trees. (newscientist.com)
I have visited chocolate plantations in St. Lucia and the originally cocoa plant is very different from the brightly - wrapped, sugar - filled candy bars that are ubiquitous in grocery stores and gas stations. (meghantelpner.com)
The number of higher - yielding cocoa plants the NESTLÉ Cocoa Plan grew & distributed to cocoa farmers in 2015 (verybestbaking.com)