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Warming is also altering rain patterns, accelerating droughts, facilitating the spread of devastating diseases like pod rot, ...

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

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Strong rains across Ivory Coast’s central regions are expected to strengthen cocoa trees and improve growing conditions for ...

The farmer, however, said there was a decline in the quantity of cocoa beans realised from his farm in the outgoing season due to diseases such as black pod and cocoa swollen shoot virus.

We use ‘cacao’ to describe the unrefined bean and the tree on which it grows. Cacao trees produce pods which contain around 20-60 seeds, known as cocoa beans. Cacao is minimally processed ...

Cocoa — the main ingredient in chocolate — is produced from the bean pods of cacao plants. Cacao thrives under specific ranges of temperature and rainfall. Warm to hot temperatures up to 90 ...

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In addition, the National Confectioners Association reported that Q4 North American cocoa bean grindings fell -1. ... yellow and the cherelles (cocoa pods) withering. Reduced global cocoa ...