Gardeners who love chocolate may want to grow cacao and make their own chocolate. Cacao trees grow well here in Hawaii and with room for a small tree where it can have a shady overstory, it’s worth ...

New research finds that cacao trees evolved over 7.5 million years ago. DNA studies may help improve future chocolate crops.

Planting cocoa trees and banana trees with proper space between them ... Initially, co-op members are using Dimitra to register the areas on which they grow their cocoa. The main source of data is the ...

They found that climate change made the temperature too hot to grow cacao trees - the plant that makes cocoa beans - for three weeks a year. Researchers said that "excessive heat can contribute to ...