Cocoa pods ripening on shrub

Cocoa grows in an unusual fashion. It flourishes in very warm, shady places. Pods appear on the trunks of shrubs [kept clipped to facilitate harvesting]. When they are orange and thus ripe, they are cut down

the seeds inside the pods are fermented

and further processing occurs. Professor Welch appears in the picture.

Welch, Claude Emerson

State University of New York at Buffalo

1975-03

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Owerri (Nigeria)

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