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Cameroon: Cocoa plantations grapple with black pod disease

Cameroon: Cocoa plantations grapple with black pod disease

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Cameroon's southwest region, one of the country's top cocoa belts, is grappling with black pod disease that is ravaging its cocoa plantations. A fungal disease, brown rot, or black pod disease, ravages cocoa pods and trees and can thrive in wet conditions. With Cameroon having been struck by weeks of heavy rain, the disease has managed to spread significantly. Downpours have been intense since J...

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