Brazil’s Bahia Hosts World’s Largest Cocoa Farm Project Challenging West Africa’s Market Dominance

Brazil’s Bahia Hosts World’s Largest Cocoa Farm Project Challenging West Africa’s Market Dominance

Brazilian farmer Moises Schmidt is building the world’s largest cocoa farm in Bahia, investing $300 million to create a plantation larger than Manhattan. He uses industrial farming techniques common in soy and corn, planting 1,600 cocoa trees per hectare—five times the traditional density. Full irrigation and fertilization aim to boost yields to 4,000 kilograms per […]

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In the Brazilian state of Bahia, farmer Moises Schmidt is building the world's largest cocoa farm. He wants to revolutionize the production of the main ingredient of chocolate by growing high yield cocoa trees on an area larger than Manhattan, which are completely irrigated and fertilized. So far, the region is not known for the cultivation of cocoa beans. Schmidt's $300 million plan [...] The post Brazil: Largest cocoa farm in the world in the …