"Sabah holds a prominent position as Malaysia's main producer of cocoa beans, contributing a remarkable 60% of the nation’s total cocoa production. With approximately 6,000 hectares of cocoa ...

Farmers told Reuters that as flowers and cherelles, which develop into cocoa pods, were proliferating on trees more moisture was needed to help them survive and turn into bean-producing pods.

Recently harvested cocoa beans from the Ivory Coast signal lower quality, with counts of about 105 beans per 100 grams. The Ivory Coast cocoa regulator allows exporters to buy bean counts of 80 ...

Cocoa beans demand fell in Europe in the fourth quarter of 2024 and for the year as a whole, though it remains relatively stable, according to a report from the European Cocoa Association.

The police have arrested three suspects in connection with the alleged smuggling of quantities of cocoa beans to the neighbouring countries of either Togo or Burkina Faso, the Ghana Cocoa Board ...

has intercepted three trucks loaded with 1,473 maxi bags of cocoa beans, allegedly being smuggled out of the country. The trucks, with registration numbers AS 5278-23, GR 7247-21 and GR 314-24 ...

Large quantities of cocoa beans were illegally transported to Guinea during the holiday period in late December with the help of corrupt authorities meant to be combating trafficking, more than a ...

Heavy rains have increased bud mortality, disease risk and reduced bean quality. Ghana revised its 2024/25 cocoa harvest forecast down by 5% due to weather concerns and recorded a 23-year low ...

Recently harvested cocoa beans from the Ivory Coast signal lower quality, with counts of about 105 beans per 100 grams. The Ivory Coast cocoa regulator allows exporters to buy bean counts of 80 ...

Understanding Cocoa Price Increases Cocoa beans are the essential ingredient in chocolate, requiring extensive processing before they can be transformed into the sweets we love. Because cocoa only ...

“A workable mechanism is developed to assist cocoa growers through cooperative participation to sell their cocoa beans directly to the grinders, for semi-finished products such as cocoa liquor and ...