Since 2016, the cacao industry in Puerto Rico has experienced a massive resurgence with production growing by more than 3,400 ...
By Marcelo Teixeira, Oliver Griffin and May Angel SAO PAULO, March 12 (Reuters) - Cocoa farmers in Brazil have slammed the ...
In 2024, a surge in cocoa on international markets reached more than $12,000 per metric ton, the highest in decades. Then it ...
Cocoa beans contain a variety of phyto, or plant nutrients, such as polyphenols like theobromine and caffeine.
Farmers in the Far North are being encouraged to diversify into cocoa as a huge shortage hits the Australian market.
In the high elevations of Tublay, Benguet (located about 250 kms from Manila), there are centuries-old cacao trees, most of them criollo, which have been bearing fruit for families over generations.
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Cocoa: West Nile’s economic lifeline

What you need to know: Cocoa has become a game-changer. For decades, the West Nile Sub-region has been known for the production of tobacco, cotton and coffee as its main cash crops. However, ...
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ABIDJAN, March 9 (Reuters) - Steady rainfall in many of Ivory Coast’s main cocoa-growing regions will produce enough small ...
Ivory Coast faces an accumulation of 200,000 metric tons of unsold cocoa by end-March, when its main crop concludes, unless the government cuts state-regulated farmer prices to unlock sales, industry ...
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) says it is engaging the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Agribusiness to establish small-scale cocoa processing plants in cocoa-growing communities across the ...