By shading cacao trees on plantations, for example, it might be possible to improve harvests and potentially reduce the ...

The new levies come as nations on the continent continue to struggle with the fallout of the Trump administration’s ...

Fava beans also have nutritional advantages ... Beressi Golomb said, four tons of cocoa pods are required, using 2,000 trees and over 100,000 square feet (9,290 square meters) of land.

Ivory Coast's cocoa mid-crop output is expected to drop around 40% this season after an unusually long dry season and limited, patchy rainfall hit crops in the main production regions, exporters and ...

He pointed to a collaboration between Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency and the local division of international chocolate maker Mars, which have released a new variant of cocoa that ...

Chocolate is made by roasting and grinding up cocoa beans to yield chocolate 'liquor ... the bits of the chocolate that are from the cocoa pod rather than the later additives such as sugar ...

The beans are then removed from the pods with their surrounding pulp. Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.

Most cocoa farmers ... ensure bean quality. Growers in the central regions said temperatures were rising week after week and a continuing trend could weaken trees, putting young pods at risk ...

Cocoa trees, which only grow in a narrow ... the weather in both countries allowed a fungal infection called black pod disease to flourish, rotting beans on the trees. "It is impacting us in ...

Five pod counters and five exporters told Reuters they expect farmers to harvest between 280,000 and 300,000 metric tons of cocoa due to the dry spell, which deteriorates beans' size and quality.