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Cacao swollen-shoot virus disease spread by mealybugs leads to death of half of some harvests.
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Cacao swollen-shoot virus disease spread by mealybugs leads to death of half of some harvests.
To’ak Chocolate routinely charges over $300 for a single bar of chocolate, which is claimed to be the most expensive chocolate in the world. The brand justifies its price because it is responsibly sourced from a cacao variety, Ancient Nacional, native to Ecuador, that many experts believed to be extinct as recently as 2009. The company started from a rainforest conservation project and works exclusively with local farmers.
For these ambitious scientists in the rainforests of Ecuador, helping the environment has never tasted so sweet
It’s Easter, so Jill Dupleix’s thoughts turn to the traditional sweet snack – and not just any kind. This is the sort you can feel virtuous about eating.
American and Mexican archaeologists developed a new method of analyzing soil and used it to determine where the Maya grew cacao beans in sacred groves.