The cacao trees mature at five years and begin to flower on the trunk. The flowers are pollinated by midges, a small fly.

Tuesday closed up +386 (+3.45%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) closed up +236 (+2.62%). Cocoa prices Tuesday rallied ...

Tree crops – for example, apple, cherry, olives, nuts, coffee, and cacao – cover more than 183 million hectares worldwide, ...

"These challenges are compounded by aging cacao trees in key production areas, which are more susceptible to stress and less productive." It takes about five years before a cacao tree is mature ...

Cocoa powder vs. cacao powder The plant used to make chocolate is called the cacao tree. It makes a fruit called cacao beans. Raw beans can be crushed into cacao powder. But if the beans are ...

A number of crops have been documented there, including corn, sweet potatoes and the cacao tree Theobroma cacao. Traces of chemicals and DNA from the plant were found on pottery, suggesting the ...

Under the shady cacao trees on Rosine’s farm near Adzope village, Pauline Indouboua chops at weeds with her machete. Rosine employs Pauline and her husband as “share croppers”, people who ...

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives of Mesoamerican Indians. According to the Mayan and Mexica religions, cacao had divine origins as the god Quetzalcoatl discovered cacao. Cacao ...