In the early twentieth century, São Tomé and Príncipe was the world's leading cocoa producer, supplying roughly a fifth of global output around 1908 through Portuguese colonial plantations known as roças.
Record no. MRB-2026-006990
Once the world's largest producer of cocoa
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