The world's top cocoa producer is in the dry season that runs from mid-November to March, when rainfall is low. Farmers said there were enough pods on trees to be harvested in January, but from ...
The Harmattan wind, which usually sweeps in from the Sahara desert between December and March, can dry the soil and harm cocoa pods, making them smaller. In the western region of Soubre ...
March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25 ... to suffer the effects of the seasonal dry and dusty Harmattan winds, with leaves turning yellow and the cherelles (cocoa pods) withering. On December 18, NY Cocoa ...