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18 unusual facts about Theobroma cacao


Black pod disease

pathogens all expressing the same symptoms in cocoa trees (Theobroma cacao).

Colonial Venezuela

In the 18th century a second Venezuelan society formed along the coast with the establishment of cocoa plantations manned by much larger importations of African slaves.

Department of Optometry, KNUST

In March 2011, volunteers from Vision Aid Overseas visited the Department to teach its students as well as embark on Outreaches to cocoa growing areas of the Ashanti Region.

Divine Chocolate

It was originally established in the UK in 1998 as a company limited by shares owned by the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa farmers' co-operative, the Fairtrade NGO Twin Trading and The Body Shop, with support from Christian Aid and Comic Relief.

Fernandino peoples

The first inhabitants purchased dwellings for $3,000 to $5,000, with a handful of large plantation owners who'd engaged in cocoa and yam farming industry which was controlled by English and Spanish factory owners.

Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum

A small tropicarium, open to visitors, consisting of a glass cube 10 metres square houses cacao trees of the species Theobroma cacao and Theobroma grandiflorum.

Isaac Babalola Akinyele

Since the Pax Britannica of 1893, the Ibadan had started to settle down to civil life occasioning cocoa farming; introduced by the CMS around 1890, and other agricultural and business enterprises.

Koundi et le jeudi national

They organise a union, the Organisation for Communal Interests, and create a cocoa plantation over several hectares to be able to depend on themselves.

Kpalimé

Palimé, formerly known as Kpalimé, is a city in Plateaux Region, Togo near the Ghanaian border, centred on the weaving industry and the surrounding cocoa plantations.

La Chonita Hacienda

La Chonita is a 200 + year old former hacienda which is still a working cacao and sugar cane farm along with some tourist services.

Microascales

Some species are plant pathogens, such as Ceratocystis fimbriata, transmitted by beetles to living trees and causing cacao wilt and many other economically important diseases.

Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino

;Area Intermedia: Showcase pieces include pottery from the Valdivia people, and Capuli figures chewing cocoa leaf.

Patois

Also named "Patuá" in the Paria Peninsula of Venezuela, and spoken since the 18th century by self colonization of French people (from Corsica) and Caribbean people such as JAMAICA, which is the main country that speaks this language (from Martinique, Saint Thomas, Trinidad, Guadeloupe, Haiti) who moved for cacao production.

Phytophthora

Phytophthora megakarya - one of the cocoa black pod disease species, is invasive and probably responsible for the greatest cocoa crop loss in Africa

Raffaele Ciferri

While in Latin America, he also conducted research of diseases affecting cacao in Ecuador.

Rio Claro, Trinidad and Tobago

As cacao planters settled the area, the village on the banks of the Rio Claro came to be called by that name.

The Naked Jungle

In 1901, mail order bride Joanna (Eleanor Parker) arrives from New Orleans at a South American cocoa plantation to meet her new husband, plantation owner Christopher Leiningen (Charlton Heston), whom she has married by proxy.

Vallakam

As of now, Vallakam's economy is based on what is left of coconut cultivation, newly introduced cash crops like nutmeg (Myristica fragrans) and cacao (Theobroma cacao), remittances sent by people from the village working in other Indian states and abroad and trade.