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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Cocoa prices continue to surge an eye-popping amount, with factors like weather, ... Cocoa pods that are not ripe yet hang on a tree in Affiakounou, Ivory Coast. ...