In Bahia, Brazil, farmer Moises Schmidt is building what could become the worlds largest cocoa farm, aiming to transform the ...

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Cocoa has long provided a lifeline in Ivory Coast but adverse weather and plant diseases have hurt harvests in recent years ...

Most all of the Cocoa beans used in chocolate production are grown abroad, and according to the United States Department of Agriculture, those imports are critical to meet the demand of chocolate ...

Cacao trees grow in hot, humid climates near the equator. The trees produce football-sized pods that contain 30 to 50 cacao beans each, surrounded by a sweet, white pulp. The pods do not ripen ...

While most trees are left scorched or shattered, Dipteryx oleifera—the tonka bean tree—shrugs off the blast and somehow comes out stronger. No charred bark. No lasting damage. Just a tree standing ...

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Personnel of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) have intercepted 25 bags of cocoa beans being smuggled into Togo through the Kauk-Jago border in the Bunkpurugu enclave in the North East Region.

Lightning strikes may kill untold numbers of trees every year, but one tropical species has evolved to benefit from the sudden jolts of electricity. The tonka bean tree, aka Dipteryx oleifera, has ...

The tonka bean tree (Dipteryx oleifera) may have evolved a unique advantage by withstanding lightning strikes that harm neighboring plants and parasitic vines, according to research published March 26 ...