cocoa plantation News
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Organizations question Hershey`s `I Love Reese`s Day`
Hershey"s has declared today, May 18th, to be the official, national "I Love Reese"s Day." With separate holidays for peanut butter and chocolate, Hershey"s thought they needed a separate, official day to celebrate Reese"s Peanut Butter Cups. But the marriage of chocolate and peanut butter is hardly reason to celebrate, when Hershey"s sources chocolate from western Africa where some of the ...
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Cargill gives first sustainable premiums to increase Cocoa farmer incomes
Cargill's Cocoa & Chocolate business has handed over the first UTZ CERTIFIED premiums to two farmer cooperatives in Cote d'Ivoire. The two farmer cooperatives - Co-operative Agricole de Fiedifoue and Coopaga - received over U.S. $400,000 (200,000,000 CFA) for deliveries of UTZ CERTIFIED sustainable cocoa beans since the beginning of October 2009. The premiums will be shared amongst the ...
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