The Center, supported by Cargill, its employees, dealers and suppliers, was constructed at a cost of US $60,000. It is the first centre to serve as a cocoa training campus for around 2,000 farmers in Ba Ria Vung Tau, Dong Nai and Binh Thuan provinces.
The Center has one training room with capacity for up to 200 people, an office, a cocoa post-harvest processing unit and a 1.7-ha demonstration cocoa farm.
The Center, together with other technical training programmes, will help farmers improve yields by 30% to 50% in three years.
Cocoa is a new crop in Vietnam currently grown by about 25,000 farmers in the central highlands, Mekong delta and southeast provinces. As a new crop, many farmers still lack the knowledge, skills and expertise to achieve higher yields.
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