Cocoa Hybrid: VTLCH 2

 Salient features

• VTLCH-2 is a hybrid between ICS-6 × SCA-6.
• The hybrid is early, heavy bearer and tolerant to black pod disease.
• The colour of the pod is yellow, no. of pods/tree per year is 70 and single dry bean weight is 1.15 g.
• It contains 54% fat with a shelling percentage of 11.

Performance
• It produces 1.15 kg dry bean/tree/year which comes out to be 850 kg/ha.
• It is an early, heavy bearing variety with tolerance to black pod disease.