Cocoacocoa, dried and processed seed of cocoa trees – chocolates, made from processed seedscocoa, origin in the Americas ‐ foothills of the Andes, in Amazon and Orinoco basins of South Americacocoa and chocolate, introduced to Europe ‐ by Spaniards by mid‐seventeenth century...
Floral Phenology of Upper Amazon Cocoa Trees: Implications for Reproduction and Productivity of Cocoa. ISRN Agronomy. Pp.1-8.Adjaloo MK, Oduro W, Banful BKB. Floral phenology of upper Amazon cocoa trees: Implications for reproduction and productivity of cocoa. ISRN Agronomy. 2012;2012...
this region of tropical rain-forests, with its moist, windless climate and constant warmth, provides ideal conditions for the growth and well-being of the cocoa tree. The cocoa tree may have originated in the Amazon basin of Brazil, or in the Orinoco Valley of ...
Cocoa beans are produced in tropical zones around the Equator, where climate conditions are well suited for growing cocoa trees. About 70 percent of the world’s cocoa beans come from four West African countries: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon. The Ivory Coast and Ghana are by far...
Recognizing that in order to implement Colombia's commitment to zero net deforestation in the Amazon by 2020, the Government of Colombia – with the support of Norway, Germany, the United Kingdom and the Global Environment Facility, among other partners – created the Amazon Vision Program in 20...
Series II hybrids have been widely used in replanting projects and to replace trees killed by swollen shoot disease or removed in control operations. Some of the existing seed gardens have recently been adapted to produce inter-upper Amazon hybrids likely to have greater resistance to virus ...
This search for new land has led both in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire to large-scale deforestation. As at present little land is available for the expansion of the cocoa area a further increase in production has to come from an increase in yield of the existing mature trees and the ...
productivity and yield of the crop. Harvesting is done manually through cutlass or long knife to get a pod from the trees with a long handle steel tool. These pods can be opened through a hard stick to get beans from the pod by removing it. One pod consists of 20–50 beans depending ...
Over a period of six years, the presence or absence of 23 species of arboreal insects (13 Homoptera, 1 Heteroptera, 9 ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)) was recorded on each of 866 young Amazon and Amazon hybrid cocoa trees at the Cocoa Research Institute, Tafo, Ghana. The general form of ...
Floral Phenology of Upper Amazon Cocoa Trees: Implications for Reproduction and Productivity of Cocoa A study of the floral phenology of cocoa trees was carried out between 2006 and 2008 at Kubease in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, using one hundred cocoa trees from ten farm plots. The objective...