Despite the fact that cocoa beans' growth can be accelerated with bonemeal, bees seem unable to pollinate them.
Using the F3 Debug UI, it can be shown that cocoa pods lack the #minecraft:bee_growables tag.
I'm unsure as to whether this is intentional or an oversight.
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In real life, bees do not pollinate cocoa beans, but I'm not sure if Minecraft was designed like that.
(https://nbeenews.net/cocoa-pollinator-bees-or-midges/)
the cocoa flower is kind of complex and because of that it has a special dedicated pollinator which is a tiny fly called a ‘midge’. Honey bees do not and cannot pollinate cocoa.