President John Dramani Mahama has urged Parliament to enact legislation that explicitly bans the destruction of cocoa farms ...

Indonesia is the third-largest producer of cocoa in the world, behind Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana, according to the United ...

They are currently implementing policies to rehabilitate old cocoa trees, a process that could take two to three years before they can re-enter the market, as cocoa trees typically take three year ...

Those methods include upping amounts of leaf litter to improve insect pollinator propagation, increasing the density of cacao tree plantings, utilizing taller native shade trees and limiting ...

and the distortion of leaf and shoot growth. In the first year of infection, infected trees have a much decreased cacao yield, and usually die a few years afterward. Over 250 million trees have ...

On a 6-hectare plantation that grows crops such as vanilla, cocoa and cashew, Javad placed 14 sensors on the leaves of 12 trees — a mix of rose sandalwood, ironwood, Ceylon boxwood and Kindal.

“Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile. Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like Santoso are working with businesses and other organizations ...