Sentences with phrase «cocoa production by»

He said cocoa farmers are encouraged to engage in climate smart cocoa production by plating improved seeds and increasing the number of forest trees per ha of cocoa at least 19 trees per ha.

In response to rising demand in the chocolate industry and reduce dependency on imports, Indian cocoa producers have said they will increase domestic cocoa production by 60 per cent in the next four years.

Not exact matches

Global Industry Analysts predicts that the market will exceed four million tonnes by 2010, while cocoa production is becoming more concentrated in one continent.

The joint initiative, called the Rainforest Alliance - Olam Partnership for Livelihoods & Landscapes in Western Ghana, aims to conserve the cocoa forest landscape and sustain the agricultural livelihoods of communities around the Sui River, Suhuma, Tano Ehuro and Santomang Forest Reserves — a region where forests are particularly threatened by cooca production.

Presenting their Cocoa Paper, a product which contains 10 % cocoa shell content, a by - product of chocolate production, the 170 year old luxury paper and packaging specialist caught the eye of jurors including Damien Parenteau of Chanel China and Qilian Wang, President of Richun Tea Ltd..

By 2050 it is expected that the annual temperature globally will have risen to such an extent that many coffee, tea and cocoa production areas will be too hot to grow the crops.

At the end of the cooperation in 2020, a unique database, new methods and rapid tests for the classification and quality control of the cocoa beans used by the Barry Callebaut Group in its production will be available, allowing the manufacturing of precisely tailored products.

Dr. Oppong, said as part of President John Mahama's commitment to boost cocoa production, critical interventions, have been initiated by COCOBOD, one being the Youth in Cocoa Farming programme.

There is a general sense that cocoa production is not profitable enough hence the decision by chiefs to rather turn the lands over to rubber plantation companies.

«The use of the machine by cocoa farmers will boost the efforts of farmers to increase production, while it will also boost government's efforts to revolutionise cocoa production,» he said.

These inputs were confirmed by farmers across the country to be ineffective and it is not surprising that Ghana's cocoa production plummeted to the 740,000 and 778,000 tonnes in the 2014/2015 and the 2015/2016 seasons respectively when Dr Opuni was in charge of COCOBOD.»

The programme is an intervention by the government to fight the growing unemployment and raise cocoa production levels.

He named the challenges militating against cocoa production in the country as the unreliable supply of inputs to farmers as a direct result of the «free» input policy adopted by the government, new brands of chemical inputs released to cocoa farmers in Ghana without adequate trials and research by designated institutions, low producer prices paid to farmers and the politicisation of the mass spraying and fertiliser distribution programme.

«But when we started walking through these areas we were just stunned by the scale of illegal cocoa production.

In keeping with this, recent studies showed that flavanols, a subclass of flavonoids that is richly represented in natural cocoa beans, increase NO production by cultured human vascular endothelial cells (16) and improve endothelium - dependent vasorelaxation (NO - dependent) in finger (2) and brachial (3) arteries of healthy humans.

Cocoa bean mulch is made of discarded hulls or shells of the cocoa bean, which are by - products of chocolate production.

With nut trees needing sufficiently cold temperatures to grow, flavours including Chunky Monkey and Coconut Seven Layer Bar could face extinction, while Brownie Batter and Phish Food could be in short supply within just two years, with cocoa production at risk of falling by up to 50 per cent.

Together with partner organizations and the Peruvian government, we're tackling key drivers of deforestation in the Amazon — supply chains built around coffee, cocoa, and oil palm — by implementing a «Production - Protection Compact» that simultaneously protects forests and benefits small - scale farmers.

The Prince of Wales cocoa forest initiative seeks to address deforestation and forest degradation caused by cocoa production under which Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire which together produce over 60 percent of the world's cocoa have prepared a Joint Framework of Action to address deforestation and forest degradation.

The «trick» behind cocoa production is addressing cocoa's vulnerability to climate change by working with farmers to build resilient agricultural strategies.

The link between child slavery and cocoa production and chocolate has been well - documented, even here on TreeHugger, with our piece by guest contributor Tex Dworkin of the Global Exchange Fair Trade Online Store in