SaferShield Witches' Broom Trial Results - Sep-25 to Dec-24

From August 2023 to December 2024, two performance trials were conducted in Trinidad and Tobago to evaluate SaferShield, a cost-effective, two-phase treatment designed to combat major cocoa fungal diseases: Witches' Broom, Black Pod, Frosty Pod, and Vascular Streak Dieback. The trials took place on a 6-acre plot in Rancho Quemado and a 5-acre plot in Erin that were both infected with Witches' Broom and nearby plots where the disease was uncontrolled.

What is SaferShield

 

SaferShield is a technique developed by SaferGardens to control pests and pathogens (i.e., maintain their populations at manageable levels) by actively suppressing them to low, acceptable levels and then using biological methods, primarily entomopathogenic bacteria or fungi, to sustain control.