Just five cacao beans a day—that's all you need to help your body fight aging and maintain healthy bones. These small yet ...

Gardeners who love chocolate may want to grow cacao and make their own chocolate. Cacao trees grow well here in Hawaii and ...

North America imports its cocoa beans because they can’t be grown here. Cacao trees, which produce cocoa beans that are ground and combined with other ingredients to make chocolate, can only be ...

Cocoa production in Ivory Coast in the 2024/25 season is on course to remain around last season's disappointing level after adverse weather and crop conditions continued, the country's agriculture ...

Cocoa exports in Africa’s most populous nation surged 606 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024. Data from the National Bureau ...

In the tropical nations of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria, rows of cacao trees sprout pods bearing dozens of seeds. Once harvested, these humble beans are dried, roasted ...

Cacao fruit might be the source of cocoa beans but it can be used for more than dessert-y type foods. From pasta infusions to dying shoes, here's the score.

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.

Booming cocoa prices are stirring interest in turning Nigeria into a bigger player in the sector, with hopes of challenging ...