CRIN TC-8 High adaptation to Moist Savanna and drier areas, flavour is good  for chocolate and resistance to the black pod disease.

Agroecological Zone: Humid Forest, Forest Transition/Derived Savanna and Southern Guinea Savanna. CRIN TC-8 have diverse genetic base; they are early bearing, high yielding with very low input, resistant to major pests and diseases of cocoa, highly adaptable to cocoa ecologies of Nigeria, very good cocoa quality traits etc

It has a maturity period of three years.