There are thousands of varieties of beans in the world. Green, yellow, purple, spotted, or, striped beans with round, flat, ...

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are ...

It is dried and the seeds can be fermented to make cocoa butter ... Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.

According to the National Confectioners Association, the heart of chocolate is the cocoa bean, which are really seeds from ...

GhanaWeb published an article revealing that Ghana's first cocoa seeds were not swallowed by Tetteh Quarshie. This discovery was made after GhanaWeb's People and Places team visited Tetteh Quarshie’s ...

“Assuming he swallowed the cocoa beans and for six weeks on the ship ... Tetteh Quarshie made an unsuccessful attempt at planting the first seed in Accra, as the soil type - mostly sandy ...

In the heart of West Africa, where the world’s finest cocoa beans are cultivated, Chinese investment has built new processing factories in Ivory Coast and Ghana. On the outskirts of Abidjan, ...