date:Jun 24, 2014
ers have been able to move to other cash crops such as rubber and palm oil. We want them to have a good income because they are in cocoa, says Terheijden.
Malaysia is a good example of what happens if no-one intervenes they are moving massively into palm oil. Malaysia was one of the promising countries 20 years ago but today it is clearly not. It didnt live up to expectations in terms of production.
But there are emerging regions for cocoa production, he says. Vietnam wasnt a cocoa producing