The cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao) is farmed within biodiversity hotspots of West Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia. Cocoa was traditionally grown under a canopy of native trees that ...

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Therefore, he said cocoa farmers must ensure they harvest only the ripe fruits and not the unripe ones, adding wet cocoa bean ...

ABIDJAN, April 14 (Reuters) - Cocoa farmers in the world's top-producing ... Farmers said they feared that beans maturing in time for next month's market would be small and poor quality compared ...

On Beni's streets cocoa beans heaped on tarpaulins can be seen drying in the sun and are mainly sold to "small buyers", circumventing certification processes, said Karim Sibenda, an agricultural ...