Bad weather, failed government policies and a fast-spreading virus are reducing output from the world’s top cocoa-growing ...
Farmers face an uphill battle when it comes to meeting rising food demands while also dealing with more erratic weather ...
More than a year and a half after it initially planned to close, the Coca-Cola bottling plant on Industrial Drive will remain ...
The Dallas-based company employs nearly 800 people in San Antonio. It's part of Arca Continental, the second-largest ...
The company uses cell culture technology to grow 100 percent natural cocoa from just one or two beans. Its aim is to 'eliminate the industry's costly reliance on fragile rainforests,' the ...
But those raids had an unexpected benefit - cocoa seeds were spread all over the farm. "All the scattered seeds soon grew in to plants and they were much healthier and stronger than the saplings I ...
Cocoa was the best-performing commodity in 2024 ... at helping farmers—and a fast-moving virus that has ravaged their plants.
But a new European Union law aimed at protecting the world’s rainforest means that West African farmers have to try to grow more cocoa on the plots they have. That decision often leads to big ...