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Are you a fellow Chocaholic?
Ever thought about where the cocoa comes from to feed your desires?
Global cocoa production currently stands at 6.5 million tonnes.
West Africa is home to the largest cocoa producing countries worldwide, with 3.9 million tonnes of production in 2022.
Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s largest producer with 2.2 million tonnes of cocoa in 2022. This accounts for a third of the global total.
Around one million farmers in the country supply key customers such as Nestlé, Mars, and Hershey.
But there is a dark side to chocolate.
African farmers make about 5% of the retail price of a chocolate bar, earning just $1.20 a day.
The industry has led to significant forest loss to plant cocoa trees.
In other parts of the world, Indonesia is the third largest producer, while Ecuador was in the early 1900s, the world’s leading producer.
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