Bad weather, failed government policies and a fast-spreading virus are reducing output from the world’s top cocoa-growing ...

Bitter chocolate is made by roasting cocoa seeds then pressing them ... Farm practices to enhance it's growing include adding the farmyard manure to practice organic farming.

Cacao pods, which grow directly from the trunk and branches of the cacao tree, contain seeds surrounded by a sweet-tasting pulp. (This photo of a cacao tree growing in Belize illustrates how these ...

Traces of chemicals and DNA from the plant were found on pottery, suggesting the ground seeds of the cocoa pod were being mixed into a concoction and drunk. Co-researcher, Dr Sonia Zarrillo of the ...

HUNTINGTON — Although most harvesting is done in the fall, December was the best time for employees at the Huntington Museum of Art to start picking fruits off its tropical cacao plant.

"All the scattered seeds soon grew in to plants and they ... a private company that has been growing and processing cocoa beans for more than 30 years. In particular he says that Indian farmers ...

High commodity prices and sustainability concerns prompting investment by likes of Mondelēz into lab-grown versions ...

Since 2022, the Helsinki-based company has also been working with VTT, Finland’s state-owned research centre, to grow cell-based cocoa pods. Michal Beressi Golomb, chief executive of Celleste Bi ...