Sentences with phrase «cocoa tree farms»

The researchers harvested beans from five cocoa tree farms in Bolivia at the beginning and end of the dry season, which runs from April to September.

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Low productivity on cocoa farms as a result of poor agricultural practices, nutrient depleted soil, and aging cocoa trees are keeping many farmers in a state of poverty.

He said the situation was worrying because some chiefs were compelling cocoa farmers to release their farms for the cultivation of rubber trees.

Outside these lands, growers should move toward shade - cocoa farming, which keeps some of the large existing trees, with cocoa plants interspersed among them.

Jade Mountain also runs an organic farm and there is an on site chocolate laboratory making chocolate from their own estate grown cocoa trees.

The route runs through the Atlantic Forest, until we get to São Francisco Farm, where there will be a tour to the local cocoa planting and processing activities, with the opportunity of tasting it right from the tree.

Gilbert Larose, who describes his ancestry as a mix of African, French and Indian, spent five years developing the two - hectare site on a grassy slope, which includes a medicinal garden, tropical fruit trees, some farm animals, heritage art, a small museum and an opportunity to see how traditional food staples, such as cocoa sticks and manioc are prepared.

My favorite Christmas memory was chopping down a tree at a tree farm that took you out in a horse - drawn sleigh and then the hot cocoa that was in the shop afterwards.