24 May 2021 --- Barry Callebaut is scaling up the capacity of its nursery production facilities in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, Brazil, Ecuador and Indonesia. These nurseries are stocked with both cocoa and non-cocoa seedlings, as highly biodiverse cocoa farms have been shown to be drought-, disease- and pest-resilient, while producing higher yields. In Côte d’Ivoire, for instance, the chocolate supplier is on track to distribute close to one million seedlings in 2021, with species including cocoa, teak, mahogany, sugar palm, coconut and mandarin.
