Cocoa prices had always been volatile, but exports of this tropical crop normally provided about half of the country's foreign currency earnings.

Today the garden contain about 1400 species, including approximately 290 crop species outdoors and 160 tropical crop species in the greenhouse.

Papayas, bananas, cotton and other tropical crops are beginning to benefit from biotechnology, and the main beneficiaries are small-scale farmers, not multinational businesses.

The large greenhouse contains tropical crops, exhibition and event space, and room for overwintering plants.

The warm lowlands are conducive to palay production and other tropical crops.

The bounce, the tropical heat, the lack of turn and the atmosphere all play into their hands.

I was lucky enough to watch titanic struggles for glory in driving rain, muggy tropical heat and inside the pressure cooker of the cycling velodrome.

The work itself, heavy labour in tropical heat, was backbreaking.

Not only horribly difficult to wash on tour, they were heavy in the tropical heat.

Add tropical heat, a reputation for radical politics and a determinedly laissez-faire lifestyle and you begin to get the picture.

It's a class act, from the eco-luxury design to the totally tropical location on a serene beach.

A stay in a tropical location may sound alluring, but could you get the same treatment or better nearer home?

Can take full sun with adequate moisture like in a tropical location but best in shade.

The reason for the bright colors were said to express its tropical location.

Temperatures fluctuate only several degrees throughout the year due to the city's tropical location and considerable proximity to the equator.

I have a tropical print from its 1970s archive that it has rejigged.

Brighten up your wardrobe with this fruity tropical print.

Yet another clichéd tropical print explodes on social media.

Beware of not tucking in the shirt and picking less tropical prints, or you might look like you left the house in your dad's pyjamas.

Graphic tropical prints are a cool take on the trend for floral designs.

We explore quiet paths lined with high volcanic rock walls and go on uphill climbs through thick, tropical vegetation.

We wander round his house, down to the swimming pool that lies deep in the site, surrounded by the giant tendrils, fronds and spikes of tropical vegetation.

Collections range from desert plants to tropical vegetation.

Alone on a desert island, he fights to survive, eating the local, tropical vegetation.

When it ceased to be used for military purposes, tropical vegetation covered the battlements and walls, and soil accumulated in the tunnels and trenches.

It proves too good to be true and allows me — a novice — to test the tropical water for 30 minutes.

The sharks are fished in their tropical water habitat for food and for their distinctive 'guitarshaped' trophy heads.

The plant utilises the heat difference between the surface tropical water and cold water at depth.

The lily pool had originally been built to cultivate tropical water lilies in 1889.

These western ocean currents transport warm, tropical water polewards toward the polar regions.