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West Africa collectively supplies two thirds of the world's cocoa crop, with Ivory Coast leading production at 1.8 million tonnes as of 2017, and nearby Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Togo producing additional 1.55 million tonnes. [ 2][ 3][ 4] Ivory Coast overtook Ghana as the world's leading producer of cocoa beans in 1978, and today is highly ...
Theobroma cacao (cacao tree or cocoa tree) is a small (6–12 m (20–39 ft) tall) evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae. [1] [3] Its seeds, cocoa beans, are used to make chocolate liquor, cocoa solids, cocoa butter and chocolate. [4] Native to the tropics of the Americas, the largest producer of cocoa beans in 2018 was Ivory Coast, at
The cocoa bean, also known simply as cocoa ( / ˈkoʊ.koʊ /) or cacao ( / kəˈkaʊ / ), [ 1] is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted. Cacao trees are native to the Amazon rainforest.
Ivory Coast is the fourth-largest exporter of general goods in sub-Saharan Africa (following South Africa, Nigeria, and Angola). [97] The country is the world's largest exporter of cocoa beans. In 2009, cocoa-bean farmers earned $2.53 billion for cocoa exports and were projected to produce 630,000 metric tons in 2013.
Cocoa production in Ghana. Harvest processing of cocoa beans in Ghana in the 20th century. Ghana is the second-largest exporter of cocoa beans in the world, after Ivory Coast. [ 1][ 2] Ghana's cocoa cultivation, however, is noted within the developing world to be one of the most modelled commodities and valuables. [ 3]
William Vivour. William Allen Vivour ( fl. 1830-1890) was the single most successful 19th-century planter in Africa [1] [2] [3] due to his substantial and flourishing cocoa plantation in Fernando Po (Equatorial Guinea). [1] He was the son of a recaptive of Yoruba ancestry from present day Lagos [4] and resettled in Sierra Leone by the British ...
Setswana. Kapa Botlhaba. The Eastern Cape ( Xhosa: iMpuma-Kapa; Afrikaans: Oos-Kaap [ˈuəs.kɑːp]) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are East London and Gqeberha. Due to its climate and nineteenth century towns, it is a common location for tourists.
Margarida Cardoso’s “Banzo,” which plays in the main competition section of Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week, is a deeply evocative consideration of the literal heartbreak of colonialism ...