The wonderful world of cocoa growing

The cultivation of cocoa is an item of great importance in the social food economic among others generating for many years sources of direct and indirect employment. It is a conservationist crop since the cocoa system is sown with forest or fruit species as permanent shade crops such as musaceous are used as temporary shade and is often associated with other items of direct consumption for the producer thus generating a cocoa forest which allows the diversity of plant species in the system.