TY  - CHAP
AU  - Pérez-Flores Julian
AU  - Facundo Sánchez Gutiérrez
AU  - Bautista-Mora Evarista
AU  - José Jesús Obrador-Olán
AU  - Ruiz-Rosado Octavio
AU  - Valdéz-Balero Apolonio
ED  - Peter Osobase Aikpokpodion
Y1  - 2019-09-24
PY  - 2019
T1  - Current and Potential Use of Timber and Non-timber Resources of the Cacao Agroforestry Systems
N2  - Almost five million tonnes of cocoa produced annually drives the US$100 billion global chocolate industry. To sustain the industry, cacao planting materials (seeds and clones) have been successfully moved from the Amazon forests in America to the humid tropical forests of Africa, Asia, and Australia. In more than 150 years of commercial cacao cultivation, smallholder farmers that supply the bulk of cocoa beans still face several production constraints that impede their efficiency. Scientific technologies have therefore been deployed to remove these constraints by ensuring a continuous supply of good quality cocoa beans to meet growing global demand. This book provides insight into these scientific advances to address these current and emerging problems and to assure the sustainability of the global cocoa industry.
BT  - Theobroma Cacao
SP  - Ch. 2
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.82337
DO  - 10.5772/intechopen.82337
SN  - 978-1-83962-733-0
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-19
ER  -