If it hadn't been for the squirrels, George Matthew's attempt to become a cocoa bean producer might have failed. His farming ...

Major cocoa bean market participants include Cargill, Cocoabean, The Hershey Company, Blommer Chocolate Company, JINDAL COCOA ...

Scientists and entrepreneurs are working on ways to make more cocoa or develop cocoa substitutes as climate change affects ...

A shortage of cocoa beans over the past year has sent prices ... a double whammy of extreme weather and disease-battered cocoa plants in the top-producing West African region signaled supply ...

will produce cocoa-free chocolate, nut-free spreads and bean-free coffee at a facility in Mason. The plant will have the capacity to make 10,000 metric tons of cocoa-free chocolate annually ...

Members of an Ivory Coast traders’ group have complained that some major exporters in the world’s top grower are overpaying for cocoa beans to secure supplies for their processing plants ...

Oakland-based Voyage Foods, a self-described “food innovation company” that has raised nearly $100 million from investors, will produce cocoa-free chocolate, nut-free spreads and bean-free ...

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives ... a drink made from the cocoa-plant, which they said he took before visiting his wives." The Spaniards noted that the Aztecs could walk ...

If it hadn't been for the squirrels, George Matthew's attempt to become a cocoa bean producer might have failed. His farming career began in the 1970s when he inherited a rubber plantation in the ...

George Matthew moved into cocoa production to keep his farm going If it hadn't been for the squirrels, George Matthew's attempt to become a cocoa bean producer might have failed. His farming ...

"All the scattered seeds soon grew in to plants and they were much healthier ... "I think it was the best decision I have made," he says. Cocoa beans have to be removed from their pods and ...