Selection

Cocoa is of highly heterozygous nature and so there is ample scope for selection. An easy approach to yield improvement in cocoa is to select plants superior in yield and their subsequent development into clones. Plants yielding not less than 100 pods/ tree/ year, each pod weighing 350-400 g or more with a pod value of not more than 10 and with 35-40 beans having a fermented dry weight of 1.0 g can be selected as parents. In general, cocoa is well adapted to vegetative propagation by grafting, budding or cuttings. A number of superior clones have been selected throughout the world and these are getting very high acceptability among the growers. At CPCRI the clones I-14, I-56, II-67, III-105, NC 42/94 and NC 45/53 have been selected as best yielders, multiplied and supplied to farmers

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