Exploring ways for cocoa farmers to hand pollinate their crops could help offset crop losses resulting from climate changes, ...

Cocoa thrives under a specific temperature range, with 32 degrees Celsius being optimal for growth. Enhancing the rate of cocoa pollination through hand pollination can improve cocoa yields by 20 per ...

An international group of researchers replicated hand-pollination trials on cacao trees at 26 sites in Brazil, Indonesia and Ghana, simultaneously analyzing soil samples, local temperature data ...

The long-term goal is to help growers use both native and managed bees to provide reliable and economical crop pollination, but this research also highlights our basic philosophy that conservation and ...

But hand-pollination increased cacao yield by 20%. It also found that in December, during the hot season in Brazil and Indonesia, sites that were cooler by 7° Celsius (12.6° Fahrenheit ...

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