Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and other climate impacts are throttling cocoa production and driving up chocolate ...

Ghirardelli reportedly rejects up to 40% of cocoa seeds shipped to them, ensuring that only the highest quality seeds are used in their products. Ghirardelli caters to the growing demand for ...

and erodes the quality and quantity of seeds the trees yield. Last year, warming added at least six weeks’ worth of days above that threshold in nearly two-thirds of cacao-producing areas across ...

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns are disrupting cacao crops, affecting both the quantity and quality of beans ... split open to extract the seeds, which undergo fermentation ...

The export market was dominated by sesame seeds, N47.75 billion; superior quality cocoa beans, N231 billion; and standard quality cocoa beans , N140 billion. Notably, sesame seeds were ...

It is dried and the seeds can be fermented to make cocoa butter. Bitter chocolate is made by roasting cocoa seeds then pressing them. Cocoa powder is made by crushing bitter chocolate removing the ...

Plantation and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani said the country can only produce about 450 tonnes of cocoa beans per year, compared to about 300,000 tonnes per year 20 years ago.

In February 2023, GhanaWeb published an article revealing that Ghana's first cocoa seeds were not swallowed by Tetteh Quarshie. This discovery was made after GhanaWeb's People and Places team ...