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. The published trial is given below:
