In Ecuador, farmers who bet on cocoa beans rather than bananas, the country's top agricultural export, are cashing in as a global shortage of the main ingredient in chocolate feeds a price ...

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 ...

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 ...

What we found: visibly dry farms with flowers withering on trees, cropland pocked with illegal mines, and producers losing a battle with disease-riddled cocoa plants — all signs the road to ...

“Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile. Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like Santoso are working with businesses and other organizations ...

“Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile. Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like Santoso are working with businesses and other organisations ...

It was a bad time to inherit a rubber plantation, falling rubber prices meant it kept losing money. So, 10 years ago Dr Matthew decided to experiment with cocoa trees, hoping they would generate ...

KENINGAU, July 7 (Bernama) -- The export revenue from the cocoa industry reached RM4.8 billion as of May 2024. In a statement today, the Ministry of Plantation and Commodities said this amounted to ...