The Board's goal was to grow Malaysia's cocoa industry so that it could be incorporated in the global market, as well as to boost the quality and performance of cocoa bean and downstream production8. Malaysi
Hopefully, conditions will improve for the world's cacao trees. The use of jackfruit seeds might be very useful while the cacao population is recovering or in case the use of cacao trees for seed production becomes an unsustainable practice. It will be interesting to see whether the taste of...
the oldest report of the establishment of cocoa in South East Asia refers to a single plant which survived the journey from Mexico to the Philippines in the mid-seventeenth century (Blanco 1837 cited by Bartley, 2005 [38]). Thus, even if a cacao virus, such as the CSSV, is not seed ...