Each year, cocoa scourges and dise...

Each year, cocoa scourges and diseases destroy nearly one-third of the cocoa harvest throughout the world. Unlike bring to maturityed nations, crop protection programs in the tropics are frequently under-funded and lack adequate facilities and human resources. Therefore, the American Cocoa Research Institute and its partners have cause to growed a coordinated program to identify short and long-term measures of controlling inflictions such as the Cocoa legume Borer in Indonesia, and fungal diseases like as Witches' Broom and uncordial Pod in Latin America.

ACRI is engaged in 12 international research efforts in