How to harvest cocoa

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Ninety per cent of the world’s cocoa is grown on small family farms by about 6 million farmers who earn their living from growing and selling cocoa beans. • Cocoa trees grow in tropical environments, within 10 degrees latitude from the equator. The ideal climate for growing cocoa is hot, rainy, and tropical, with lush vegetation to provide shade for the cocoa trees. • Cocoa is a delicate and sensitive crop, and farmers must protect trees from wind, sun, pests, and disease. But for all this hard work, cocoa farmers gain very little from a very profitable global cocoa trade. • Between 2016 and 2017 global cocoa prices dropped by more than a third, disease and age are damaging cocoa trees and the number of farmers is falling because the benefits are so poor that few young people want to stay in the profession - the average age of a cocoa farmer is over 50. • Fairtrade helps to make cocoa farming in places like Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana more sustainable. • Find out more about why you should choose Fairtrade chocolate next time you crave a sweet treat: • https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/Farmers-...

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