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Cocoa

Crop management

Cocoa: a potential new crop for Northern Australia?
This page looks at the potential for an Australian industry based on the current world market for cocoa and outlines some of the production challenges that must be solved.

Growing cocoa
This DPI&F Note provides basic information about cocoa production. Currently cocoa is not commercially cultivated in Australia although research trials commenced in 1999.

Pests and diseases


 

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