Consider growing gliricidia known as ‘madre-de-cacao’ as a nitrogen fixing overstory plant that will protect your tree from hot sun and strong winds. Cacao trees usually start to flower and ...

less-productive trees and plant new ones to increase production, especially as farms are ravaged by diseases. Like other cocoa farmers, Mensah has diversified: He now grows cassava and maize ...

Cacao is a successful understory plant, growing to between six and 12 metres below the canopies of other trees in its native tropical rainforests. But to increase commercial production, farms often ...