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  2. Cocoa production in Ghana - Wikipedia

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    Cocoa beans and cocoa harvest processing. Ghana's cocoa production grew an average of 16 per cent between 2000 and 2003. [18] Cocoa has a long production cycle, far longer than many other tropical crops, and new hybrid varieties need over five years to come into production, and a further 10 to 15 years for the tree to reach its full bearing potential.

  3. Bulk cocoa - Wikipedia

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    Ghana produces the highest quality bulk beans, [2] as Cadbury has maintained its reputation based off using beans from Ghana and as Ghana has retained a high degree of structural control over its cocoa industry. Cocoa in Ghana is cultivated for a consistent flavor, which is understood in European and American markets as the flavor of chocolate.

  4. The Dark Side of Chocolate - Wikipedia

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    In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association and its members signed a document that prohibited child trafficking and labor in the cocoa industry after 2008. Despite this effort, numerous children are still forced to work on cocoa plantations in Africa. In 2009, Mars and Cadbury joined the Rainforest Alliance to fight against child labor.

  5. Ghana is a world leader in cocoa production. So why does it ...

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    In 2021, Ghana grew 1 million tons of cocoa. But it exported most of that to Europe and North America, where it was turned into chocolate. And the big bucks are in chocolate. Trapped in a trade ...

  6. Climate change taking cocoa farmers ‘back to zero’ in Ghana

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    Cocoa farmers in the Ahafo region of the west African country say climate change is bringing more erratic rainfall, with drought in formerly rainy periods and unseasonal downpours, so seedlings ...

  7. 1983 famine in Ghana - Wikipedia

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    Cocoa bean, Ghana's main agricultural export crop and occupies a unique position in the Ghanaian economy, [9] had its production begin to plummet from the 1960s onwards, and nearly collapsed in the early 1980s after experiencing falling prices, political unrest, drought, and devastating forest fires. [10]

  8. Agriculture in Ghana - Wikipedia

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    As of 2010, Ghana's cocoa bean exports were valued at $2,219.5 million (US). [25] As of 2017, Ghana is ranked number two for Cocoa exports behind Côte d'Ivoire bringing in a $1,914 per metric ton (2204.6 lbs. • ~$.868/lbs) received; Cocoa is slated to exceed the national average supply by 97,500 metric tons. This massive increase, in turn ...

  9. Tony’s Chocolonely leaves advent calendar day blank to ...

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    Tony’s Chocolonely’s advent calendar has left a day blank to increase awareness of the inequality faced by cocoa farmers in the chocolate supply chain.. The Dutch chocolate brand’s Big ...