Outreach and Professional Services
Outreach
Cocoa Research Centre staff are members of several boards/committees/panels etc:
- INGENIC
- The International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO) Ad hoc panel of experts on fine or flavour cocoa
- Trinidad & Tobago’s Cocoa Stakeholders Steering Committee
- SPS Capacity Building team of Trinidad and Tobago
Professional Services
CRC staff also provide the following professional services.
- Organoleptic and other quality evaluations on cocoa bean samples for
- Cocoa and Coffee Industry Board, Trinidad & Tobago
- Ministry of Food Production, Land and Marine Affairs.
- Rausch Schokoladen Gmbh, Germany.
- Organoleptic assessment expertise on chocolate and cocoa liquor samples for Chocolate Companies and or individuals in value added processing in Ecuador, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.
- Providing advice on cocoa rehabilitation, production and processing to cocoa farmers in Trinidad & Tobago.
- Collaboration in the design and construction of cocoa solar dryers for Prism Agricultural Estates Company Limited, and the Ministry of Food Production, Land and Marine Affairs.
- Collaboration in quality and sensory assessments with Guittard Chocolate Company Limited, USA.
- Provision of facilities at CRC for chocolate making by local entrepreneurs.
Postgraduate Supervision and other student support
Staff at CRC are also involved in supervision of Postgraduate research projects:
- M.Phil. students in the Department of Chemistry: Sheldon Pilgrim and Ashaki Andrews. Main Supervisor: Ivan Chang Yen, CRC supervisor: Darin Sukha
- Ph.D. Food Science and Technology student Naailah Ali. Main supervisor: Gail Baccus-Taylor, CRC supervisor: Darin Sukha
- M.Sc. student Janeille Bacchus, supervised by Lambert Motilal.
- M.Sc. student Dane Bailey supervised by Dr. T.N. Sreenivasan
- M.Sc. student Kenia Campo supervised by Romina Umaharan and Dr. Surendra Surujdeo-Maharaj
CRC staff also regularly give advice and assist numerous undergraduate students with cocoa-related projects in the Faculty of Science and Technology and Faculty of Engineering of The University of the West Indies.
