Sentences with phrase «on cacao trees»

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While chocolate comes from a pod grown on the Theobroma cacao tree, vanilla is derived from the pods of the only fruit - bearing Vanilla planifolia orchid.

The ability to authenticate premium and rare varieties would encourage growers to maintain cacao biodiversity rather than depend on the most abundant and easiest to grow trees.

With any luck, researchers will be able to balance out the stresses on the finicky cacao crop by applying what they've learned from the sequencing of the cacao tree genome.

The trees play an absolutely critical role in rural life,» observes Peter Läderach of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, who has led research into the effects of climate change on cacao farming in Ivory Coast and Ghana.

During harvest, farmers cut the cacao pods from the tree with knives on the ends of long poles.

Learn about the history of St Lucia's cacao production on a tour through the trees, and finish up by making your very own bar of chocolate from the estate's quality cacao nibs.

Follow the path back through the deep jungle, wind through banana trees, cacao plants and small Kogi communities on the way to Ricardito Camp.

Sloths make themselves at home in cacao trees; look for them lounging in the branches and nibbling on the oversized green leaves or hanging upside down from the branches.

Hosted by Cotton Tree Lodge, this week's activities are centered on the history and cultivation of cacao and its transformation into craft chocolate.