Prepare for a chocolate drought
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Mark your calendars - the world might run of chocolate by 2020. Everyone enjoys chocolate, and that is the one of the growing issue for the world. In fact, since 2012 we’ve been eating more chocolate than cocoa is produced by farmers.
According to Washington Post, the biggest problem comes from a diminishing supply of cocoa. This is because the major producer of cocoa — West Africa, has been suffering very dry weather meaning diminished crops. So difficult is cocoa production at the moment that farmers are choosing to grow other crops instead, which again means less is being produced.
With various other combined factors we have higher prices for a bar of chocolate and it could also possibly mean that in the long term it could also mean that the taste of chocolate could actually change.
Why is that? Because agricultural researchers are developing a new type of cocoa tree that yields more the number of beans, but it is expected the taste will be impacted negatively. While chocolate could be produced in much greater quantities using this new tree, it will require more artificial taste ingredients to get it as close to the old chocolate taste we all love today.
The Swiss-based Barry Callebaut Group warned of a global deficit by 2020. so stock up on all those bars because at the rate we're going, choclate is going to be a rare and pricey commodity. Somebody needs to go find Willy Wonka and his chocolate factory!
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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