Difficult weather conditions and disease have affected production in West Africa, which produces about 70% of the world’s cocoa. The two largest producers, Ivory Coast and Ghana, have been hit by a combination of heavy rain, dry heat and disease recently.
Late last year, heavy rain and the spread of black pod disease in the two countries affected farming, according to a November report from the International Cocoa Organization. Poor road conditions also made it difficult to bring the available beans to port, according to the report.
50 years from now, people won’t remember what actual chocolate tasted like
Want there already a thing where they gave the farmers American chocolate products and they didn’t believe it was made from their plants?
I remember a documentary touching on that subject but I think it was moreso related to the amount of sugar and processing the cocoa goes through before being sold on the market
Yeah, chocolate is delicious and I love it, but even if made with just cocoa and sugar, it is radically different than what comes off of the plant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaCZcdWk1DU