Indonesia is the third-largest producer of cocoa in the world, behind Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana, according to the United ...

less-productive trees and plant new ones to increase production, especially as farms are ravaged by diseases. Like other cocoa farmers, Mensah has diversified: He now grows cassava and maize ...

Around 19,000 hectares of cocoa farms have been lost by gold mining activities, according to the Ghana Cocoa Board. While illegal gold mining, and its impact on cocoa farms, has been an ongoing ...

The lag between the time it takes to plant and harvest a cocoa ... Adenowuro says: “We want to rejuvenate the farm and to take a bite of the rising cocoa prices.” ...

climate-resilient varieties of cocoa plants. In Indonesia, cocoa production is experiencing declining yields, partly due to climate change, notes Banerjee. "The study's findings suggest that ...

The management of Ikom Cocoa Processing Factory, AA Universal Bean and Co Ltd, has confirmed that the cocoa plant located in the ... to regenerate their old farms in addition to the new greenfield ...

Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like Santoso ... Sitting in the shade of his forest farm in south Sumatra, 3 miles from a national park where Sumatran tigers and rhinos roam, farmer ...