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

Bad weather, failed government policies and a fast-spreading virus are reducing output from the world’s top cocoa-growing ...

Farm practices to enhance it's growing include adding the farmyard manure to practice organic farming. Some of the pests that attack cocoa as highlighted by infonet-biovision.org include cocoa ...

Cocoa powder is made from cacao beans, which come from the plant Theobroma cacao L. Cacao beans are the primary ingredient in chocolate, but they can also be ground into cocoa powder. The powder ...

Diaz del Castillo, an officer with Hernan Cortez wrote: "From time to time the men of Montezuma's guard brought him, in cups of pure gold, a drink made from the cocoa-plant, which they said he ...

Cocoa was the best-performing commodity in 2024, outpacing even bitcoin, but that hasn’t stopped farmers from abandoning the crop. Farmers in the top cocoa-producing region of the world are ...

Bad weather, failed government policies and a fast-spreading virus are reducing output from the world’s top cocoa-growing countries. Cocoa was the best-performing commodity in 2024, outpacing ...