Cocoa Vegetative Propagation

Common cloning methods

*Cuttings (using stems or shoots)
*Budding
*Grafting

Why it's done

* to maintain high yield
*to ensure good bean quality
*to improve disease resistance
*to get uniform trees in the form
*to reduces canopy in height

Cloned Cocoa trees

*bear fruit earlier (2-3years)
*produce consistent pods
*perform better than seed-grown trees

Convert the soil into money

1.Cocoa cloning (vegetative propagation) means producing a new cocoa plant from a selected high-performing parent tree. So the new plant is an exact copy (clone)

2. Cocoa budding are techniques used to produce high-quality uniforms cocoa trees. They help farmers multiply the best cocoa varieties instead of planting random seeds.Vegetative propagation- using plant cuttings to reproduce plants from existing plants.Vegetative reproduction is a form of asexual reproduction accurring in plants in which a new plant grows from a fragment or cutting of a parent plant or specialized reproductive structures, which are sometimes called vegetative propagates