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1749 London Evening Post 12 Oct. 1/3 That Insurrection proceeds only from the Advantage which divers Persons have found in carrying on the Cocoa Trade themselves.

1762 Amer. Gazetteer I. sig. E10^v There are from 500 to 1000 or 2000 trees in a walk or cocoa plantation.

1833 A. C. Carmichael Domest. Manners W. Indies I. xxiii. 263 The work of a cocoa estate is nothing compared to that of a sugar estate.

1890 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 7 Nov. 1043/2 The cocoa industry has now become a very important one in this country.

1910 Times 24 May 35/4 Let us hope that cocoa growers may continue indefinitely to reap larger profits year by year.

1959 New Scientist 28 May 1180/3 If it is a cocoa plant, cuttings will be taken from it and propagated in special frames, heated through peat from below.

1973 H. L. Bretton Power & Politics in Afr. xvii. 242 The large-scale cocoa farmer typically employs wage labour drawn mainly from neighboring countries.

1995 M. M. Amin in F. Ruf & P. S. Siswoputranto Cocoa Cycles (1996) ii. 55 A large number of these countries depend heavily on cocoa exports as an important source of foreign exchange income for their development programmes.

2011 Wall St. Jrnl. 23 May c3/1 The nexus of cocoa production shifted to West Africa in the early 1900s as infestations such as frosty pod rot devastated Latin America's cocoa horticulture.