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. When the farmers are ready to ...

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 ...

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 season virtually ended in November. There are no more ripe cocoa pods on the trees to harvest.” ...

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 ...