Cacao fruit/cocoa farmers could see a yield benefit from Nestlé’s patented technique, the KitKat maker claims.

Nigeria's cocoa harvest is forecast to fall by 4.4% to 296,000 metric tons this year as ageing trees and a lack of access to adequate pesticides lowers yields, commodities exchange AFEX said in a ...

Cocoa is a familiar flavor, so it’s tricky to replace, but partial substitutes are easing some of skyrocketing costs for ...

ACCRA (Reuters) -Cocoa farmers in the world's second-biggest producer Ghana are expecting a bumper harvest for the upcoming 2025/2026 season, buoyed by improved flowering and pod development, even ...

The new cocoa harvest in West Africa’s most important growers looks set to disappoint, just when the world desperately needs more beans.

Aside from the odd piece of See's Candy, molecular biologist Raven Hanna didn't grow up a chocoholic. On a trip to Belize more than a decade ago, she encountered cacao trees and learned how the Maya ...

Cocoa prices today are under pressure and are posting moderate losses as drier conditions in the Ivory Coast have allowed farmers to return to their fields and finish the cocoa harvest.

Sunny skies and abundant rainfall across most of Ivory Coast's main cocoa regions accompanied the start last week of the 2012/13 harvesting season in the world's top grower, farmers and analysts ...