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

Rains were scarce in most of top grower Ivory Coast's main cocoa regions last week and more are needed to boost the ...

Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation ...

The cemetery is located at Cocoa Boulevard and Pine Street. It is on land that Williams said was donated by the Dixon family for Blacks to have a formal burial ground and is one of several ...

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

Ghana has delayed the delivery of 370,000 metric tons of cocoa in the 2023/24 season due to poor output, its food and ...

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

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25) Friday closed up +671 (+6.39%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) closed up +426 (+4.99%). Cocoa prices surged Friday after North American Q4 cocoa grindings fell ...

There’s dark chocolate, milk chocolate and even white chocolate, but they all start with beans from the cacoa plant theobroma cacao, also known as the Chocolate Fruit Tree. These trees grow near ...

ICE NY cocoa (CCH25) today is up +324 (+2.90%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) is up +208 (+2.31%). Cocoa prices today ...

Ghana has delayed the delivery of 370,000 metric tons of cocoa in the 2023/24 season due to poor output, its food and ...

Cocoa was the best performing commodity in 2024, outpacing even bitcon, as prices surged 132 percent, hitting a record high of ...