Cocoa Market Turmoil Raises Profile of Old-School Pod Counters
Across West Africa’s cocoa heartland, Eddie Arthur has spent a quarter of a century traveling from farm to farm each day to ...
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Master Gardener: Chocolate comes from fruit trees
Top crops are rice and sugarcane while sugar, coffee, cocoa, bananas and ... Pollinated flowers produce about 40 football-sized pods on each tree trunk. Victor said cacao trees produce two crops ...
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Flies are saving your chocolate cravings
Cocoa trees are not the most efficient reproducers. Some have estimated that around one in 400-500 cocoa flowers will produce fruit, and only 10% to 30% of pods will reach maturity. Is the future of ...
Indonesia’s cocoa farmers work with businesses to fight the bitter impact of climate change
Indonesia is the third-largest producer of cocoa in the world, behind Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, farmers are joining with businesses ...
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Ivory Coast’s mid-crop cocoa output expected to drop around 40% due to long drought, exporters say
"We should have seen the mid-crop on trees and in fields around ... an Abidjan-based exporter. Meanwhile, cocoa flowers require 22 weeks to become mature pods, which means there will be a big ...
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Cocoa market turmoil raises profile of old-school pod counters
Across West Africa’s cocoa heartland ... he records the tally from a handful of trees, monitors flowers that can eventually grow into rugby ball-sized pods and tracks how dry or wet the ground ...