Idukki’s Mankuva cocoa, a rare and premium variety of cocoa cultivated along the Chinnar river, is on its way to securing the prestigious Geographical Indication (GI) tag.

As a result our chocolate will be 100%.” On the issue of traceability concern of our cocoa farming and productions, he said: “Our process will provide the responses to this concern.

Chocolate lovers might notice their favourite sugary snack could cost a bit more or be a bit smaller as climate change ravages cocoa crops in West Africa.

Farm practices to enhance it's growing include adding the farmyard manure to practice organic farming. Some of the pests that attack cocoa as highlighted by infonet-biovision.org include cocoa ...

Exploring ways for cocoa farmers to hand pollinate their crops ... "Governments should support sustainable farming methods [such as] keeping leaf litter, offering moderate shade, and cutting ...

Fewer people see cocoa farming as a lucrative business and instead are planting other crops such as palm oil. And many small-scale farmers still cannot get loans, he said. But Aryal said he hopes ...

We are really good at farming because our calendars are so good ... Cotton seeds were ground to make cooking oil. Cocoa and vanilla were also produced. Cocoa was made into chocolate drinks ...

She says cocoa farming itself contributes to climate change ... her business to offer more than just chocolate, and is in the process of figuring out a launch date. Canadians are avoiding ...