While many of us are familiar with chocolate, fewer will have tried cacao fruit. If you have got your hands on some fresh ...

Vanilla beans begin as the seedpods of a tropical orchid (left); Chocolate is made from the seeds hidden inside the fruit of the cacao tree (right). Florilegius / SSPL / Getty Images Of all the ...

The cacao tree's large pods contain dozens of seeds, which help produce a huge array of chocolate products around the world. A quick note on semantics: cacao beans are technically not beans or ...

"We should have seen the mid-crop on trees and in fields around November ... activity really take off," he added. Farms have no cocoa beans ready for harvest, "just one or two pods here and ...

Cocoa trees are not the most efficient reproducers ... Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa produces around 40% of the world's cocoa beans. In 2016, the country produced more than 1,470,000 tonnes - although ...

Cocoa trees, which only grow in a narrow band around ... which are the world's two biggest producers of cocoa beans. Slatterys said rising costs have had to be passed onto the customer In December ...

But agriculture modernisation efforts have encouraged the development of "full-sun" monocrop plantations that only focus on growing cocoa beans, without the use of companion plants or trees.

But agriculture modernisation efforts have encouraged the development of “full-sun” monocrop plantations that only focus on growing cocoa beans, without the use of companion plants or trees.