Thursday closed down -538 (-4.58%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) closed down -367 (-3.99%). Cocoa prices Thursday ...

and cocoa is used to describe the powder made from ground cacao beans. Cacao beans are actually seeds taken from pod-like ...

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

Chocolate is made by roasting and grinding up cocoa beans to yield chocolate 'liquor ... the bits of the chocolate that are from the cocoa pod rather than the later additives such as sugar ...

The Harmattan wind, which usually sweeps in from the Sahara desert between December and March, can dry the soil and harm cocoa pods ... yield and the quality of beans from February.