CCI
Cocoa and Coconut Institute
Papua New Guinea ( Asia/Pacific )
National collections
COLLECTION INFORMATION
- Year of founding: 1994
- Role of collection: National collection
- Main objectives of the collection:
- To conserve and maintain cocoa genetic diversity for future cocoa improvement.
- To characterise and select potential accessions as parents for hybridization (progeny trials)
- To improve the Trinitario and Amazonia populations (Population improvement program).
- To evaluate and select promising clones for release to farmers.
CONTACT DETAILS
Collection Address
Cocoa and Coconut Institute (CCI)
P.O. Box 1846, Rabaul
Papua New Guinea
James Butubu
ACCESSION INFORMATION
| Total number of accessions: | - 1200 |
| Related Theobroma species | - 1 |
| Wild relatives of other genera (e.g. Herrania) | - 0 |
| Wild seedling accessions of T. cacao | - 0 |
| Wild clonal accessions of T. cacao | - 0 |
| Clonal accessions selected in farms | - 200 |
| Seedling accessions collected from farms | - 200 |
| Clonal accessions selected in breeding plots | - 500 |
| Other | - |
Additional notes about the collection
The international clones introduced and local accessions from farmers’ fields make the collection unique. This will be the base from which we can get maximum variability creating new materials (breeders cultivars) for insect pest resistance breeding or high yield.