ACCRA (Reuters) -Cocoa farmers in the world's second-biggest producer Ghana are expecting a bumper harvest for the upcoming ...

However, cocoa pod waste is an important source of nutrients for cocoa trees. During harvest, ripe cocoa pods are collected and piled throughout the plantation.

How Chocolate Is Made From Cocoa Tree To Bar. ... March 6, 2025. Explore the complete process of chocolate making, starting with the cultivation of cocoa trees and harvesting ripe pods.

The machine is bringing automation to the husking of ripe cocoa pods — a significant improvement over the traditional labor-intensive harvesting process of picking fruit from trees and manually ...

Walking over dry, cracked earth on his hillside farm on a recent morning, Eusebio Lopez pruned trees and searched for ripe cocoa pods. Finding just one, the 71-year-old cut it open to reveal beans ...

It was love at first sight for Viviane Kouame when, as a teenager growing up in Ivory Coast, she first saw cocoa trees with ripe pods on their trunks that reminded her of babies clinging to their ...

Cocoa prices surged 136% between July 2022 and February 2024, ... Once ripe, the pods are harvested by hand and then split open to extract the seeds, ...

Nigeria may miss its cocoa output target of 500,000 metric tons in the 2014-15 season after an outbreak of fungal blackpod disease devastated farms following heavy rains, a farmers association said.