date:May 08, 2012
USDA and WCF have struck a five year deal that will see 32 scientists and public-and private-sector professionals from cocoa-producing countries such as the Ivory Coast and Ghanaenrollon two USDA programmes designed to help participants gain knowledge on cocoa growing which they can take back home.
Social responsibility
Suzanne Heinen, administrator of USDAs Foreign Agricultural Service, said:Millions of people in West Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America depend upon cocoa production for t