Hand pollination helps cocoa farmers offset climate harm
Exploring ways for cocoa farmers to hand pollinate their crops could help offset crop losses resulting from climate changes, ...
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Environmental milestone: Tall trees and shade on cocoa farms proves crucial for bat conservation
The researchers surveyed bat diversity on farms with a variety of shade tree cover; they consisted of high shade with more than 65% cover, medium cover between 35 and 65%, and "low shade cocoa ...
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Christmas chocolate prices soar while cocoa farmers struggle
Cocoa tree virus a 'disaster' for farmers Wateridge ... While some estimates suggest declines, the arrival of deliveries from the farms to the ports, a very important indicator, has increased ...
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Cocoa crisis: Illegal gold mining damaging yields and prices
Ghana’s illegal gold mining sector, locally called ‘galamsey’, is having a significant impact on cocoa prices, the FT ...
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A crash course in chocolate
A weekend at Frank Lloyd Wright’s legendary Spring Green estate with chocolatier Gail Ambrosius reveals the hidden flavors of ...
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University farm commercialises cocoa budwood
THE PNG University of Technology Farm has nurtured 10,000 cocoa hybrid and clones to be distributed to Wafi-Golpu Joint ...