Ivory Coast's cocoa mid-crop output is expected to drop around 40% this season after an unusually long dry season and limited, patchy rainfall hit crops in the main production regions, exporters and ...

The Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park is a wonderful winter sanctuary for the family. Imagine two full acres of ...

Forcipomyia are only around one to three millimetres in length. This makes them the perfect size to access the hooded, pollen-producing anthers of the cocoa tree's small flowers. Cocoa flowers grow ...

“Even if the rain comes today…it’s already too late,” said Paul Kouame Kouakou, who owns four hectares of cocoa in Duekoue, in the west of Ivory Coast. It usually takes a flower around 22 weeks to ...

Cocoa farmers in Ntoroko and Bundibugyo districts are bracing for a potentially disastrous harvest, warning that a prolonged dry spell could slash yields by 30 percent this year. Farmers report ...