Cocoa beans can absorb toxic heavy metals such as cadmium from the soil. Some cultivation areas, especially in South America, are polluted with these heavy metals, in some cases considerably. In ...

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday declared that Nigeria would no longer export raw cocoa beans while importing finished ...

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A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, the two countries responsible for 60% of global production. With chocolate makers around the world ...

Cocoa demand is expected to remain uneven across the world, suggesting the recovery remains fragile as renewed supply ...

The country that produces the most cocoa beans harvests roughly 36% of the world's supply, with nearly 25% of that being exported to the Netherlands.

Cocoa powder may not spoil in the way that some perishable foods do, but its quality can certainly degrade over time. For the ...

The Bank of Industry (BOI) says it has secured a €60 million credit facility from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to ...

Nigeria’s cocoa windfall must fund factories, not raw exports The Bank of Industry (BOI) says it has disbursed more ...

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KONA, Ghana — Manu Yaw Fofie was born into the cocoa farming business, but the land bequeathed to him has become more of a burden than a blessing. A sharp fall in cocoa prices over the past year has ...

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol — Bohol is targeting to plant 1 million cacao trees over the next 10 years through a public-private partnership scheme between a chocolate farm and the local government unit of ...