International Cocoa Quarantine Centre
About International Cocoa Quarantine Centre
The International Cocoa Quarantine Centre (ICQC), located in Arborfield, a suburb of Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom, is an organization aiming to reduce the amount of disease affecting cocoa plants. Cocoa plants are quarantined in a 1,000-square-metre (11,000 sq ft) greenhouse before being transported across the globe. Quarantining cocoa plants is considered important because over 70% of the global cocoa supply originates from West Africa, and therefore the cocoa market is susceptible to any catastrophic effects that should occur in that region.
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It's a place in Reading called the International Cocoa Quarantine Centre, or the ICQC, and it's got about 400 different varieties of cocoa plants, all in massive greenhouses, and scientists observe them every week.
from 176: No Such Thing As A Communist Caterpillar, 2017-08-04 at 00:12:12 · read transcript
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