Cocoa prices today are moderately lower as the pace of the Ivory Coast cocoa harvest picks up. Today's government data showed that Ivory Coast farmers shipped 642,500 MT of cocoa to ports from ...

Similar to wine and coffee, the bean’s flavors are influenced by the environment where the tree is grown, with each cacao ...

grow and harvest his cacao in the West Maui mountains — and explains it from the ground up. Maui Ku‘ia Estate Chocolate bar -- BRAD PAULSON photo The first plantings were on Winter Solstice in ...

Ivory Coast anticipates one of the worst mid-crop cocoa harvests in 15 years, with production potentially dropping to 300,000 ...

Demand had been dwindling before her holiday rush, and a downturn in this year's cocoa bean harvest has done her no favors. "As a sole proprietor, the only one running this, I still can't take a ...

Recent efforts to promote the sector have focused on expanding cacao production and to a lesser degree post-harvest management, the establishment of producer organizations, and the exploration of ...

The skyrocketing price of chocolate, due to a bad cocoa harvest and fertilizer shortages, is at risk of hurting holiday sales. Farmers in Africa, whose crop brings little profit, are the ones with ...

There’s dark chocolate, milk chocolate and even white chocolate, but they all start with beans from the cacoa plant theobroma cacao, also known as the Chocolate Fruit Tree. These trees grow near the ...

Due to bad weather and crop disease, Ghana's 2023/24 coca harvest sank to a 23-year low of 425,000 MT. Ghana is the world's second-biggest cocoa producer, and its 2024/25 cocoa harvest begins in ...

Due to bad weather and crop disease, Ghana's 2023/24 coca harvest sank to a 23-year low of 425,000 MT. Ghana is the world's second-biggest cocoa producer, and its 2024/25 cocoa harvest begins in ...

Recent efforts to promote the sector have focused on expanding cacao production and to a lesser degree post-harvest management, the establishment of producer organizations, and the exploration of ...