After a long week tweeting from the floor of the FFA National AgriScience Fair, we’re happy to report we’re taking a break this week. More specifically, we get the chance to talk about one of my favorite topics, chocolate.

Apparently today is (one of many) National Chocolate Day, not that there’s any reason not to choc-talk at other points in the year. The point here being, it reminds me of an article I saw a while back, pleading with biotech scientists to come up with a solution to falling cocoa harvests. As of only a few years ago, 20% of the world’s cocoa beans were being lost to disease – with a looming threat of spreading crop diseases. This clearly affects the availability and price of chocolate, not to mention the viability of the crop for farmers.

We checked around and couldn’t find any mention on biotech companies working on developing a stronger cocoa harvest. So we turn it over to you.  Does anyone know about work being done on this front?  We’d love to hear about it.  If not, maybe one of the great FFA’ers we had the chance to meet last week will come up with the solution.