It was a bad time to inherit a rubber plantation, falling rubber prices meant it kept losing money. So, 10 years ago Dr Matthew decided to experiment with cocoa trees, hoping they would generate ...

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

ADZOPÉ, Ivory Coast—In the central clearing of a steep-sloped cocoa plantation, surrounded by trees dripping with fat green pods, Brice-Armel Konan raised his smartphone toward the sky and ...