Cargill Cocoa Promise helps first Brazilian cocoa farmers to become UTZ Certified

As part of the Cargill Cocoa Promise, the first Brazilian cocoa farmers have become UTZ Certified and their products can now carry the UTZ Certified label. In the state of Bahia, four cocoa producers have recently been audited and, by partnering with Cargill, they have become the first to produce UTZ Certified cocoa in Brazil. An additional 12 cocoa farms are scheduled to be certified by May 2014, representing about 1,000 metric tons of UTZ Certified cocoa beans. Cargill is training over 80,000 farmers annually and is on target to source over 120,000 metric tons of certified sustainable cocoa beans by 2015.