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Yet in 2023, cocoa plants started rotting after extreme rainfall in West Africa - over double the 30-year average - incited an outbreak of black pod disease.

With cocoa prices soaring and formal employment scarce, nearly every family in Ikom and surrounding communities, such as Etta’s and Abangku, now owns cocoa farms, even on small plots at their homes.

Agara said the firm would assist cocoa farmers with high-quality pesticides that would help them overcome black pods and several diseases disturbing cocoa production.

But she said soaring cocoa prices, caused by climate change and crop disease, meant times were tough for the business. "We all thought things would improve after the Covid pandemic," she said.

Climate change has an impact on farming success, since cocoa is very moisture reliant —the higher the moisture content, the greater the value of cocoa. Additionally, diseases such as black pod disease ...

In 2024, human-caused climate change added six weeks worth of days above 32C in 71% of cocoa-producing areas across the four countries, higher than the optimum temperatures for growing cocoa.