There are thousands of varieties of beans in the world. Green, yellow, purple, spotted, or, striped beans with round, flat, ...

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are ...

It is dried and the seeds can be fermented to make cocoa butter ... Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.

According to the National Confectioners Association, the heart of chocolate is the cocoa bean, which are really seeds from ...

“Assuming he swallowed the cocoa beans and for six weeks on the ship ... Tetteh Quarshie made an unsuccessful attempt at planting the first seed in Accra, as the soil type - mostly sandy ...

If it hadn't been for the squirrels, George Matthew's attempt to become a cocoa bean producer might have failed. His farming career began in the 1970s when he inherited a rubber plantation in the ...

In the heart of West Africa, where the world’s finest cocoa beans are cultivated, Chinese investment has built new processing factories in Ivory Coast and Ghana. On the outskirts of Abidjan, ...