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Crop

Cocoa

Theobroma cacao L.

Temperature

21°C to 32°C

Rainfall

1200mm to 3000mm per season

Cocoa pods ripening on the trunk in Côte d Ivoire

Conditions

What it needs

Soil

EcoCrop records it growing on heavy and organic soils. It needs well-drained ground. The pH it does best at is 5 to 6.5, and it is recorded between 4 and 8.

Still being written

The pests, stages and input list for cocoa have not been written yet. What is above — the conditions it needs and how it scores against your land — is the same assessment every other crop here gets.
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