A farmer holds an opened cocoa pod at a plantation in Tanjung Rejo, Lampung province, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. Credit: AP/Dita Alangkara By The Associated Press March 15, 2025 ...

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 ...

The trees that grow on Corallo's plantation are the descendants of the country's very first cocoa trees. Up until the early 1800s, cacao had only been grown in Latin America.

Young boys mine for gold at a cocoa plantation destroyed by illegal gold mining activities in the Samreboi community, Ghana, February 26, ... Bulldozers tore out her cocoa trees.

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.

Walking through the rows of cocoa trees that were protected by the green umbrella shade of large leafy […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 82°F. Friday, June 21st 2024 ...

A cocoa tree growing near sections of a cocoa plantation that have been destroyed by illegal gold mining activities in the Samreboi community in the western region of Ghana. — Reuters Yeboah and ...

These cacao trees grow the all-important cocoa beans used to create chocolate. Fifty percent of the chocolate in the world originates from cacao trees in West Africa, notably Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

A farmer uses a chainsaw to trim a cocoa tree at a plantation in Tanjung Rejo, Lampung province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. AP PHOTO . Santoso and other farmers in Sumatra said the ...