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Growth and Production of Chocolate, days - Coggle Diagram
Growth and Production of Chocolate
Economic factors
Provides essential income for farmers and their communities
Grown in an agroforestry system; allows for biodiversity and income diversity
40 to 50 million people depend on cacoa
Environmental factors
Cacao plant is grown in tropical regions across the globe
Threats from pests, infections and climate change
Grown between 10 degrees north and 10 degrees south of the equator
Climates consists of regular rainfall and a short dry season
Needs temperatures between 21˚C and 23˚C and 1000 to 2500 mm of rainfall anually
Soil must have good moisture-holding capacity
Grows in the shade of other trees
Cultural factors
a collective effort running in family
Production stages such as ‘turning the beans’ an involved process that takes place over several days
important part of cultural practise through out the world
Labour
Extremely labour intensive
done by hand
when a cacao pod is defective it must be removed in order for the plant to give more energy to the good ones
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