When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Tetteh Quarshie - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetteh_Quarshie

    From the Gold Coast (Ghana) cocoa beans or cuttings were sent to other countries such as Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The export of cocoa from Ghana began in 1891, and the official export in 1893 (two bags exported). Ghana once provided almost half of world output. Between 1910 and 1980 Ghana was the world's largest exporter.

  3. Tetteh Quarshie cocoa farm - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetteh_Quarshie_cocoa_farm

    The Tetteh Quarshie cocoa farm, also known as the Ecomuseum of Cocoa, is the founding cocoa farm in Ghana. It is located in Akuapim-Mampong around 58km from Accra. Tetteh Quarshie established the farm in 1879 using seeds brought back from Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. [2] Three trees planted by Quarshie remain at the farm. [3]

  4. Cocoa production in Ghana - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_production_in_Ghana

    Cocoa beans and cocoa harvest processing. Ghana's cocoa production grew an average of 16 per cent between 2000 and 2003. [18] Cocoa has a long production cycle, far longer than many other tropical crops, and new hybrid varieties need over five years to come into production, and a further 10 to 15 years for the tree to reach its full bearing potential.

  5. Economic history of Ghana - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Ghana

    In 1878 cacao trees were introduced from the Americas. [1] Cocoa quickly became the colony's major export; Ghana produced more than half the global yield by the 1920s. [1] African farmers used kinship networks like business corporations to spread cocoa cultivation throughout large areas of southern Ghana. [1]

  6. Ghana is a world leader in cocoa production. So why does it ...

    www.aol.com/news/ghana-world-leader-cocoa...

    In 2021, Ghana grew 1 million tons of cocoa. But it exported most of that to Europe and North America, where it was turned into chocolate. And the big bucks are in chocolate. Trapped in a trade ...

  7. Cocoa bean - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_bean

    The cocoa bean, also known as cocoa (/ ˈ k oʊ. k oʊ /) or cacao (/ k ə ˈ k aʊ /), [1] is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted. Cacao trees are native to the Amazon rainforest.

  8. Climate change taking cocoa farmers ‘back to zero’ in Ghana

    www.aol.com/climate-change-taking-cocoa-farmers...

    Cocoa farmers in the Ahafo region of the west African country say climate change is bringing more erratic rainfall, with drought in formerly rainy periods and unseasonal downpours, so seedlings ...

  9. History of chocolate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chocolate

    Inspecting cocoa beans in the Gold Coast, in modern-day Ghana in 1957. After receiving the attention of journalists and activists, [122] Cadbury began inquiring into labor practices in the Portuguese cacao industry in the first decade of the 20th century. A 1908 report by Cadbury agent Joseph Burtt described the system as "de facto slavery". [123]