Cocoa yield and quality response to selected sustainable land management and climate change scenarios in Uganda

Date
October 2020 to September 2024
Countries
Members
Keywords
soil fertility management
cocoa yield
climate change
cocoa quality
Research fields
Agriculture and Food Sciences
Chemistry

Cocoa productivity in Uganda has remained low with average productivity of 0.55 t/ha, compared with 1.65 t/ha attained in Ghana. The study will develop simple visual indicators for monitoring soil structural quality in cocoa fields, establish the effect of sustainable land management on cocoa yields and quality and predict future cocoa yields using data from Global and Regional Climate Models.