I miss harvesting cocoa fruit or we usually call it cacao here. My father planted this fruit before, we cover it with plastic when the fruit grow a little and then if it is ripe we harvest and eat it. We then keep the seeds, wash it, cook it and then grind and then form into a tablea which we used to make champorado.
I seldom seen cacao tree this time, even in my father's garden some died and others are being cut down.
These days, dried cocoa seeds are expensive. So, it could really help the family economy if you had cacao plantations there :)