The price per ton of cocoa ended 2024 with a 178.2% surge, closing at $11,675 after reaching an all-time high of $12,931.

This documentary guides you through the meticulous process of harvesting cocoa pods, followed by essential stages like fermentation and drying. From farm to factory, witness how cocoa beans are ...

The EU initiative is part of a growing movement to make raw materials ... the source of 70% of the world’s cocoa beans. Stockpiles this season are expected to be the lowest in 45 years ...

Nearly everyone loves chocolate. Increasingly, that includes those living in China, the world’s second most populous nation.

An improved harvest that revives tensions between multinational corporations and local actors summarises Côte d’Ivoire’s 2024-2025 main cocoa marketing campaign. Running from 1 October to 31 March, ...

Kerala's cocoa industry sees growth with launch of farmer producer company, aiming to boost income and quality of cocoa beans.

Over the course of two visits and several days, The Associated Press repeatedly documented farmers harvesting cocoa beans where that work is banned in conservation areas of Omo Forest Reserve ...

TASS/. Global cocoa bean prices are growing amid a poor harvest in key cocoa producing countries, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria, Irina Nagaitseva, spokesperson of the Rusprodsoyuz trade ...

The COCOBOD Law Meanwhile, there is a law that forbids citizens who grow and harvest cocoa to process the beans. The Ghana Cocoa Board Law 1984 (PNDC Law 81) makes it an offence, and if anyone did and ...

Chocolate is made from the beans of cacao pods like this one In 2011, the government established a High-Value Crops Development Program to encourage cocoa production. "Growing cocoa let us build a ...

pod rot of cocoa or charcoal pod rot which are controlled by planting in well-drained places, removing infected pods and harvesting regularly. The beans are then removed from the pods with their ...