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 ...

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’s premium fruit-flavored heirloom variety ...

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 ...

To date, the NGO has planted nearly 300,000 trees, with nearly 1,111 cocoa trees per hectare. “Women of Virunga”, 55% dark milk chocolate from Original Beans. Image courtesy of Original Beans.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...