Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia are working with businesses and other organizations to protect their crops ...

(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) Cocoa farmer Sarwono uses banana leaves to cover cocoa beans in a fermentation box in Tanjung Rejo, Lampung province, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Dita ...

Easter egg hunts could become slightly more difficult and expensive this year - with the chocolate treats rising in price by ...

This has led to smaller harvests and lower-quality cocoa beans, tightening the global supply ... with a 5.7-ounce box of ...

Its British colonizers grew robusta and arabica, but much of that stopped during decades of conflict that forced people from ...

Workers turn excelsa coffee beans to dry near Nzara ... and that requires stability. Elia Box lost half of his coffee crop to fire in early February. He plans to replace it, but was dispirited ...

Top 5 picks for the best box of ... The cocoa's innate acidity and bitterness should be prominent but palatable. Some chocolatiers add sugar or flavorings such as vanilla beans, peppermint ...

They said Tetteh Quarshie swallowed cocoa beans from Fernando Po to ... extensive historical answers suggest he kept the beans in his tool box, as he was a blacksmith. Interestingly, historical ...

Nigeria has struggled to diversify its oil-dependent economy but investors have taken another look at cocoa beans after global prices soared to a record $12,000 per tonne in December. "The farmers ...

"The criminals sell the cocoa as it is. They just cut it, remove the husks that protect the beans and then sell it directly," said Frank Ndinyoka Kabeya, a cocoa buyer and a member of the Union ...