Prices in the cocoa market have dropped recently from record highs, but coupled with high energy costs, they have fuelled a ...

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Farmers also got improved varieties of seedlings that offer higher yields and better resistance to black pod disease. Ojon Efa is shown at his cocoa farm in Oban. Image by Olatunji Olaigbe. Nigeria.

Other challenges include black pod disease, swollen shoot virus, and fungal infections, leading to significant crop losses as well as insect pests like mirids (capsid bugs), that attack cocoa plants ...