With the price of cocoa beans setting unprecedented records on the commodities market, this year means it is certainly turning the gift of love into a bigger financial commitment than it once was.

BRUGES, Belgium (AP) — St. Valentine chocolates always seek to show how deep your love is. This year, it might just also show how deep your pockets are. A worker holds chocolate Valentine hearts ...

Today, at 75, José Ramos-Horta is both the president and a relentless salesman for East Timor. He asked China’s president, Xi Jinping, to “help us resolve the problem of agriculture ...

(CNN) — The US Department of Agriculture last week issued a conditional license for an avian flu vaccine for use in chickens, amid an outbreak ravaging poultry flocks, contributing to the sky ...

Industrial farming techniques often prioritize short-term yields over long-term sustainability, depleting nutrients and organic matter essential for healthy soils. For example, in cocoa-producing ...

For centuries, cocoa farming has been a lifeline for millions of smallholder farmers across the tropics. It is more than just an agricultural crop; it fuels a global chocolate industry valued at over ...

Nana Adunya , therefore appealed to the government through COCOBOD to quickly intervene to salvage the cocoa farms to save ...

1.9 million farms dot America’s rural landscape, and 95% are operated by families – individuals, family partnerships or family corporations (USDA Census of Agriculture, 2022). Family farms and ranches ...

The training covered key aspects of cocoa farming, including: Cocoa pruning and grafting techniques, Site and seed selection, Identification of high-quality cocoa seedlings, Baseline and lining ...