Cocoa of the Cho Gao (Rice Market) co-operative in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang has been UTZ Certified. This certification program for agricultural products, launched in 2002, claims to be the largest coffee certifier in the world. The certification is provided by the Swiss Association for International Cooperation, Helvetas in Vietnam, in co-ordination [...]
This is the first tons toward the total 560 tons of UTZ-certified cocoa Vietnam plans to harvest this year as part of its UTZ Good Inside Cocoa Program. Tran Quoc Vuong, Director of Cargill Vietnam’s cocoa purchasing program, said more and more local growers would switch to world standard practices now that UTZ-certified cocoa are [...]
Viet Nam will expand its cocoa cultivation areas to take advantage of high global demand and rising prices, as well as unstable production from the world’s major cocoa growers, according to industry officials. Speaking at a meeting on the industry’s development, Dr Tong Khiem, director of the National Agriculture and Fisheries Extension Centre, said that [...]
Viet Nam has the potential to become a major cocoa producer and take advantage of the current market conditions of rising prices and falling production in major producing countries, experts say. Experts said at a national cocoa conference held in Dong Nai yesterday that the country had the right climatic and soil conditions to grow [...]
Viet Nam’s cocoa industry is hampered by low and inconsistent quality arising out of improper harvesting, storage and processing methods, experts said yesterday, April 26. An industry conference was held in HCM City to discuss post harvest technologies and quality management of Vietnamese cocoa beans. Co-organised by the agriculture ministries of Viet Nam and the [...]
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