CRIG
Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana
Ghana ( Africa/Europe )
National collections
CRIG Nursery, north of Accra, Ghana (Photo: Tom Neuhaus, Project Hope and Fairness)
COLLECTION INFORMATION
- Year of founding: 1943
- Role of collection: National collection
- Main objectives of the collection:
Conservation and breeding
CONTACT DETAILS
Collection Address
Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG)
P.O. Box 8, New Tafo-Akim
Ghana
Stephen Yaw Opoku
ACCESSION INFORMATION
| Total number of accessions: | - 1366 |
| Related Theobroma species | - 5 |
| Wild relatives of other genera (e.g. Herrania) | - 2 |
| Wild seedling accessions of T. cacao | - 0 |
| Wild clonal accessions of T. cacao | - 0 |
| Clonal accessions selected in farms | - 225 |
| Seedling accessions collected from farms | - 56 |
| Clonal accessions selected in breeding plots | -0 |
| Other | - 1085 |
Additional notes about the collection
Important in this collection are the Trinidad Introductions by Posnette in 1944 and the Columbian Introductions.
More Information
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