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

Farmers told Reuters that as flowers and cherelles, which develop into cocoa pods, were proliferating on trees more moisture was needed to help them survive and turn into bean-producing pods.