Chocolate maker and cocoa processor Barry Callebaut reported a lower sales volume than expected for its first quarter on ...

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

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Where Does Raw Cacao Come From? Raw cacao comes from the beans of the Theobroma cacao tree. The beans, technically seeds, grow within pods in the Baba part of the plant. The Baba is a fleshy white ...

less-productive trees and plant new ones to increase production, especially as farms are ravaged by diseases. Like other cocoa farmers, Mensah has diversified: He now grows cassava and maize ...

Cocoa was the best-performing commodity in 2024 ... at helping farmers—and a fast-moving virus that has ravaged their plants.

I thought I knew the basics about the chocolate industry. Most comes from hundreds of thousands of small cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast. Many of these use child labour – a truth well ...

Researchers at the University of Göttingen in Germany have spent two years studying the relationship between Ghanaian cocoa plants and neighboring trees. The result? They've discovered which trees ...