Sentences with phrase «cocoa production areas»
By 2050 it is expected that the annual temperature globally will have risen to such an extent that many coffee, tea and cocoa production areas will be too hot to grow the crops.
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On the other hand, almost all smallholder cocoa is grown without irrigation in high - rainfall areas, so the water used in production of the cocoa is close to zero (apart from a small amount of water used in processing).
Nana Akufo - Addo stated that Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana cultivate almost exactly the same land area for cocoa production — 1.7 million hectares, yet in the just ended cocoa crop year 2014/2015, total production of cocoa in Cote d'Ivoire amounted to over 1.6 million metric tonnes whilst Ghana could barely manage 700,000 metric tonnes, less than half.
The researchers surveyed 23 protected areas in the West African nation between 2010 and 2013 and found that about three - quarters of the land in them had been transformed into cocoa production.
«But when we started walking through these areas we were just stunned by the scale of illegal cocoa production.
Overall, 20 of the areas had illegal cocoa plantations and approximately 74 percent of the total land in these areas was transformed into cocoa production.