Even the most novice home cooks are familiar with chocolate, but consuming the fleshy fruit surrounding raw cacao seeds isn't ...

Grows naturally in humid, tropical forests and is native to Mexico, Central America and northern South America The fruit - the cocoa ... sweet potatoes and the cacao tree Theobroma cacao.

IN the past, large yield fluctuations within treatments in cacao fertilizer experiments have proved difficult to understand. These fluctuations, frequently occurring between adjacent trees ...

Cocoa trees are not the most efficient reproducers. Some have estimated that around one in 400-500 cocoa flowers will produce fruit, and only 10% to 30% of pods will reach maturity. Is the future of ...