In this study, we sought to identify some economic shocks that have affected the Ghanaian cocoa industry and effects of these based on available annual data over 45-year period from 1975 2019. The analysis was conducted using a simple autoregressive model industry. results indicated major affecting in Ghana were political instability arising military coups, producer price shock linked very high...

The objective of this study was to determine whether there is a relationship between electrical conductivity (EC) and the percentage fermented beans (FB) CCN 51 cocoa bean cultivar. To effect, FB three lots from 0 6 days evaluated via cut test method. In addition, effect number (15, 20, 25), fermentation (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), production (1, 3) on EC whole (p<0,05). Then, values 15, 25 each ...

Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy was evaluated as a fast and easy method for identifying the most interesting cocoa genotypes according to chemical composition, including bioactive compound contents, in more than 80 samples of beans from Mexican Germplasm Bank, which were harvested over three years. Clear differences composition detected fermented dried among genotypes. The contents fat, protei...