| Cacao for All |
| Fri, May 22, 2015 |
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| The Cacao festival is opening right now in Punta Gorda Town with a wine and chocolate Gala. The festival goes all weekend and will touch on all things cacao. Complementing the experience for visitors is a newly opened Maya House of Cacao. It was built with a 400 hundred thousand euro grant from the European Union - and on Saturday at the opening - the recipient and the donor explained its importance in getting out the story behind the uniquely positioned Belize cacao industry:..
This initiative is part of the European Union's Belize Rural Development Project, which has also helped in making the cacao plant more resistant to a fungus that had badly affected the crops in the area.
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