Cargill opens third cocoa buying station in Viet Nam

CARGILL officially opened a new cocoa buying station located Binh Phuoc province. This is the third buying station the company established in Viet Nam抯 cocoa-growing areas to provide farmers with better market access for their crop. The other two buying stations are located in Ben Tre and Daklak provinces. Since 2005, more than 12,000 Vietnamese farmers have benefited from Cargill抯 quality training sessions to learn best practice techniques for cocoa growing, harvesting and new fermentation technologies to help them produce high-quality cocoa beans for the international market. Cargill also established over 100 cocoa demonstration farms, co- operated with the Ministry of Science and Technology to help establish the Vietnamese cocoa standards, and collaborated with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to release approved cocoa varieties and help build up the value-chain for Vietnamese cocoa.Vêtements et équipement Lifestyle pour Femme