If tonnes of beans go to China instead of Europe or US, chocolate makers in those regions will feel the loss, expert says.

According to Reuters, state-owned Transcao, one of Cote d’Ivoire’s largest processing plants, said it stopped buying cocoa beans because of the price, though it continues to operate on its ...

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

The International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO) predicts a 10.9% global cocoa production decrease this season, with a 4.8% fall in grindings. This will result in a 374,000-ton deficit this season, up ...

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 ...

The beans are then removed from the pods with their surrounding pulp. Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.