date:Jan 29, 2014
Germany has an ambitious goal of using one hundred per cent fair-trade cocoa in all products by the year 2020, said Thomas Bittinger, manager of Mars Germany.
By the end of 2013, about 30 per cent of its cocoa were purchased from sustainable production, according to the confectionery manufacturer.
By 2016, the company expected this to rise to 50 per cent.
We need a transformation of the entire sector, said Bittinger, adding that as the farmer is the weakest link in the chain, the focus sho