TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia (AP) — The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke, a severed ...

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 ...

TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia (AP) — The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke, a severed ...

Cocoa trees are high maintenance: Grown only near the equator, ... A farmer trims a cocoa tree at a plantation in Tanjung Rejo, Lampung province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025.

A farmer picks cocoa pods at a plantation in Tanjung Rejo, Indonesia, on Feb 18, 2025. (Photo: AP /Dita Alangkara) A farmer uses a chainsaw to trim a cocoa tree at a plantation in Tanjung Rejo ...

Cocoa trees are high maintenance, ... A farmer uses a chainsaw to trim a cocoa tree at a plantation in Tanjung Rejo, Lampung province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025.

A farmhand prunes trees on a four-year-old cocoa plantation, replanted after swollen shoot disease, in Enchi, Ghana, on 4 March. Image: Evgeny Maloletka/Bloomberg ...

It was a bad time to inherit a rubber plantation, ... Today Mr Matthews has 6,000 cocoa trees on his 50 acres of land. "I think it was the best decision I have made," he says.

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, ...

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 ...