cocoa tree

After five or seven years they were paid for each mature cocoa tree on the plot of land.

A solution to this is to change the type of cocoa tree being farmed.

Producers planted their cocoa trees then in the expectation of the Agreement being met.

The main reason for this is that cocoa trees live in the under story of large shade trees.

The noise was coming from somewhere on the ground, presumably the airstrip beyond the tall stand of cocoa trees.

Around the river are plantations of coffee, sugar cane, bananas and cocoa trees.

After such discussion one of the men would usually offer to show us a wild cocoa tree in the forest beyond his planted clearings.

Cocoa trees grow in hot, rainy tropical areas within 20 of latitude from the equator.

Since nibs are directly from the cocoa tree, they contain high amounts of theobromine.

Cocoa trees are treated with pesticides and fungicides.

The road cut through the stand of cocoa trees, though it was overgrown in- spots with big fanlike banana tree leaves.

The plant's presence is believed to be an indicator that the soil is appropriate for planting cocoa tree.

The cocoa tree - from whose seeds, called beans, chocolate is made - is native to the tropical Americas.

In the lower levels of cocoa trees is where the Pink-legged Graveteiro does its foraging.

These cocoa beans are harvested from cocoa trees and are left to dry for about ten days.

He told Youssouf and Abdoul to be careful not to damage the trunks of the cocoa trees.

One of the world's rarest mammals, the golden-headed lion tamarin, is also found in the canopy over cocoa trees.

The seeds of the cocoa tree fruit were used by the Mayan and Aztec civilisations as currency.

Fortunately for us, they had developed the custom of leaving a few of the wild cocoa trees when they felled the forest.

Wrapped in glass and metal, the harborside museum has a cocoa tree garden, a candy factory and a chocolate fountain.

One issue pertaining to cocoa plantation sustainability is the amount of time it takes for a cocoa tree to produce pods.

We returned from Loreto with pods from two wild cocoa trees and budwood from another 15.

Cocoa production had largely shifted from the coastal area, where disease had destroyed many cocoa trees, into Ashanti.

At Captain May's suggestion, the group finally chose the name "Cocoa" for the town's association with the cocoa tree.

In Ghana, a hybrid cocoa tree yields two crops after three years rather than the typical one crop after five years.