Idukki’s Mankuva cocoa, a rare and premium variety of cocoa cultivated along the Chinnar river is now on its way to securing ...

Cocoa prices have experienced a significant decline of over 30 percent in 2025, reversing the sharp increases observed in ...

Shortages of bean supply and elevated prices have prompted cocoa processors in Vietnam to augment partnerships with farmers and cooperatives.

40% of the world’s cocoa beans are produced in Côte d’Ivoire. In February, China opened that country’s largest cocoa factory.

A team from the University of Illinois has determined that improving a key component of soybean photosynthesis is unlikely to ...

Cocoa production has increased in certain African countries as growing areas expand at the expense of forests, but online ...

The price per ton of cocoa ended 2024 with a 178.2% surge, closing at $11,675 after reaching an all-time high of $12,931.

More than a dozen startups innovating in areas related to coffee and chocolate alternatives have raised funding in the past couple years, collectively pulling in over $300 million to date, per ...

The Plot Enterprise Ghana Limited, a cocoa processing company, at Eshiem in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western ...

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

It also has a negative effect on soil health, impacting cocoa yields significantly. According to the Beyond Beans Foundation, toxic substances from mining, including mercury, lead and arsenic, have ...

But agriculture modernisation efforts have encouraged the development of “full-sun” monocrop plantations that only focus on growing cocoa beans, without the use of companion plants or trees.