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  2. Cocoa bean fermentation - Wikipedia

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    Fermented cocoa beans, drying in the sun. Cocoa growers sell beans 'wet' and 'dry'. [35] When selling beans wet, farmers remove beans from pods and almost immediately sell them to a buyer. That buyer collects beans from multiple farms, and takes them to a central location, called a fermentary, where they are fermented and dried.

  3. Cocoa bean - Wikipedia

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    The cocoa bean, also known as cocoa (/ ˈ k oʊ. k oʊ /) or cacao (/ k ə ˈ k aʊ /), [1] is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted. Cacao trees are native to the Amazon rainforest.

  4. Cocoa production in Ivory Coast - Wikipedia

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    The crop is grown in Ivory Coast mostly by smallholder farmers planting on 1 to 3 hectares. [10] The pods containing the beans are harvested when a sufficient number are ripe, opened to separate the seeds and pulp from the outer rind, and the seeds and pulp are usually allowed to ferment somewhere on the farm, before the seeds are dried in a central location.

  5. Cocoa producers trial new farming scheme to save chocolate ...

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    In Ghana, the Sankofa project, which means “going back”, and is a switch from conventional chemical-using monoculture cocoa farming to a more traditional approach, aims to help farmers cope ...

  6. Takeaways on AP's investigation into cocoa coming from a ...

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    Farmers are expanding into conservation areas where cocoa farming is banned, conservati. Habitat for a dwindling population of critically endangered African forest elephants is under threat, a ...

  7. Theobroma cacao - Wikipedia

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    Theobroma cacao (cacao tree or cocoa tree) is a small (6–12 m (20–39 ft) tall) evergreen tree in the Malvaceae family. [1] [3] Its seeds - cocoa beans - are used to make chocolate liquor, cocoa solids, cocoa butter and chocolate. [4] Although the tree is native to the tropics of the Americas, the largest producer of cocoa beans in 2022 was ...

  8. Bean-to-bar - Wikipedia

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    The chocolate melangeur, a piece of equipment used in bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturing which enables chocolate manufacturing in the home kitchen.. Bean-to-bar is a business model [1] in which a chocolate manufacturer controls the entire manufacturing process from procuring cocoa beans to creating the end product of consumer chocolate.

  9. Regenerative cacao - Wikipedia

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    Regenerative cacao is defined as cacao (also known as "cocoa") that is produced on a farm that employs regenerative agriculture and agroforestry methods. It is most closely associated with the Ecuadorian chocolate company To’ak, the organic food supplier Navitas, the rainforest conservation organization TMA (Third Millennium Alliance), and the social-agricultural enterprise Terra Genesis.