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  2. 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.

  3. 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 family Malvaceae. [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 ...

  4. Environmental impact of cocoa production - Wikipedia

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    However, cocoa farming and the production of cocoa beans are extremely fragile and labour-intensive processes. The cocoa trees are also called Cacao trees. The process begins with a Cacao plant, or Theobroma cacao, in which the beans are extracted from pods that grow directly on the cocoa trees

  5. Types of cocoa beans - Wikipedia

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    The notion that each tree is a certain type, for example, Criollo or Amelonado, has been challenged by research showing single trees producing cocoa pods of different types. Single pods have even been found with seeds of different types. [5]

  6. Forget oil and metals. Cocoa was the top commodity of ... - AOL

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    Cocoa was the top-performing commodity of 2024. The price of the bean surged as headwinds battered key producers. Prices are likely to stay high into 2025, analysts at ING said.

  7. Cocoa production in Ivory Coast - Wikipedia

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    Cocoa pods on a tree in Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) leads the world in production and export of the cocoa beans used in the manufacture of chocolate, [1] as of 2024 producing 45% of the world’s cocoa.

  8. Cocoa production in São Tomé and Príncipe - Wikipedia

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    Hoping to generate more income from the colony, the colonial administrators introduced to the islands the coffee plant in 1780 and the cocoa tree in 1819. [1] [3] Cocoa tree seedlings were brought to São Tomé and Príncipe from Brazil, marking the arrival of cocoa in Africa. [4] [5] The first cocoa tree to fully grow in the colony was on the ...

  9. Chocolate industry in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The specific objective of the organization is to develop at least 100,000 hectares into cacao farms as an intercrop under coconut trees. CIDAMi. An active cacao value-chain organization in the agri-enterprise section, Cacao Industry Development Association of Mindanao Inc. (CIDAMi) is composed of members ranging from farmers to academe with the ...