A shortage of beans has also forced plants in ... Adenowuro says: “We want to rejuvenate the farm and to take a bite of the rising cocoa prices.” ...

Other companies have different recipes. “Instead of cocoa beans, we use fava beans sourced from farms across the UK and Europe, and then we ferment them in a similar way that cocoa farmers ferme ...

Farms have no cocoa beans ready for harvest, "just one or two pods here and there", said an Abidjan-based exporter. Meanwhile, cocoa flowers require 22 weeks to become mature pods, which means ...

But citizens are barred by law from processing cocoa from their farms into secondary products like ... If a farmer wants to process the beans, they’d have to buy back from the COCOBOD. By the ...

At farms, farmers grow not only cocoa but also many other crops. They make use of cocoa fruit, from beans to pods and other by-products, and use organic fertilizers for crops. Vietnam is truly leading ...