Ghana Cocoa Farming

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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, uses a blade mounted on a long stick to cut cocoa pods of a tree on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The tool is used to cut off cocoa pods that grow at various heights and are sometimes unreachable by hand. The pods are then collected by another farm worker and carried out of the plantation to a location where the pods will be cracked.
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  • Cocoa beans dry in the sun at a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, uses a blade mounted on a long stick to cut cocoa pods of a tree on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The tool is used to harvest cocoa pods that grow at various heights and are sometimes unreachable by hand.
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  • A farm worker collects a cocoa pod from the ground at a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, uses a blade mounted on a long stick to cut cocoa pods of a tree on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The tool is used to cut off cocoa pods that grow at various heights and are sometimes unreachable by hand. The pods are then collected by another farm worker and carried out of the plantation to a location where the pods will be cracked.
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  • A farm worker carries a basket full of cocoa pods on his head at a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007.
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  • Farm workers use machetes to crack cocoa pods open on a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The seeds will then be wrapped in banana leaves and left to ferment for six days before being sun-dried.
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  • Farm workers use machetes to crack cocoa pods open on a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The seeds will then be wrapped in banana leaves and left to ferment for six days before being sun-dried.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, holds a cocoa pod he just cracked open to display the seeds on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The seeds will then be wrapped in banana leaves and left to ferment for six days before being sun-dried.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah (back), 70, and a farm worker spread cocoa beans over a mat where they will dry in the sun at Mensah's farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. A bag of 65 kg of dry cocoa beans will sell for just over $60 - Mensah says the profit he makes on one bag barely reaches $15.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, holds a handful of dry cocoa beans on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The cocoa industry employs more people than any other sector in Ghana, and cocoa is the country's second export (after gold). Ghana is the world's second largest producer of cocoa - only Cote d'Ivoire produces more.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah (right), 70, and a farm worker spread cocoa beans over a mat where they will dry in the sun at Mensah's farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. A bag of 65 kg of dry cocoa beans will sell for just over $60 - Mensah says the profit he makes on one bag barely reaches $15.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, holds a handful of dry cocoa beans on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The cocoa industry employs more people than any other sector in Ghana, and cocoa is the country's second export (after gold). Ghana is the world's second largest producer of cocoa - only Cote d'Ivoire produces more.
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  • Cocoa beans dry in the sun at a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007.
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  • Cocoa beans dry in the sun at a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007.
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  • Cocoa beans dry in the sun at a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007.
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  • A ripe cocoa pod hangs from a tree on a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The pods grow on the trunk of the tree - not its branches - and turn from green to yellow as they mature.
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  • Cocoa pods at various levels of maturity hang from a tree on a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The pods grow on the trunk of the tree - not its branches - and turn from green to yellow as they mature.
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  • Ripe cocoa pods hang from a tree on a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The pods grow on the trunk of the tree - not its branches - and turn from green to yellow as they mature.
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  • A ripe cocoa pod hangs from a tree on a farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The pods grow on the trunk of the tree - not its branches - and turn from green to yellow as they mature.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, stands in a cocoa plantation on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007.
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  • Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, stands in a cocoa plantation on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007.
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