The company also provides financial support. A farmer uses a chainsaw to trim a cocoa tree at a plantation in Tanjung Rejo, Lampung province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. Credit: AP/Dita ...

Photograph by Bernd Jonkmanns, laif/Redux We walk as quietly as we can in the dark through the plantation, cacao trees sprouting football-shaped red-and-orange pods from their trunks. Madagascar ...

In Ecuador, farmers who bet on cocoa beans rather than bananas, the country's top agricultural export, are cashing in as a ...

While some plantation takeovers are indeed violent ... A field worker from the Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) identifies cocoa trees affected by swollen shoot disease on a farm ...

Bulldozers tore out her cocoa trees. Miners swarmed the property ... “It’s covering almost every part of the cocoa belt.” While some plantation takeovers are indeed violent, five farmers ...

These cacao trees grow the all-important cocoa beans ... creating a sort of herd immunity in the plantation. "While still experimental, these models are exciting because they would help farmers ...

Cocoa harvesting is a hands-on operation. After the pods are cut from the tree, they’re brought to a central location on the plantation. One man chops the end from each cocoa pod with a whack of ...

If you have a sweet tooth, take note: Cocoa prices have been soaring — and that could drive chocolate prices higher. Higher prices can be helpful for struggling cocoa farmers. But those prices ...

It takes five years for a tree to start producing the seeds that are processed into cocoa used to make chocolate and other delectable foods. A farmer holds an opened cocoa pod at a plantation in ...