According to Reuters, state-owned Transcao, one of Cote d’Ivoire’s largest processing plants, said it stopped buying cocoa beans because of the price, though it continues to operate on its ...

The International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO) predicts a 10.9% global cocoa production decrease this season, with a 4.8% fall in grindings. This will result in a 374,000-ton deficit this season, up ...

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

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

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives ... a drink made from the cocoa-plant, which they said he took before visiting his wives." The Spaniards noted that the Aztecs could walk ...

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology have investigated how fava beans could affect the mouthfeel of ...

Both Ivory Coast and Ghana forward-sell the next season’s beans and set the price that ... that West African farmers have to try to grow more cocoa on the plots they have. That decision often ...