African cocoa producers prove chocolate for the first time

It is a sad fact and indicator of the inequality of global society, since many of those who work never enjoying the fruits of your labor. This is the situation of many African producers who never get to enjoy what they grow so that your income can be increased.

However, recently, a group of producers of cocoa from Côte d'Ivoire had the opportunity to taste the fruits of their work and were able to enjoy chocolate for the first time in my life. A Metropolis television channel TV correspondent visited these farmers and offered them chocolate bars. The reaction of farmers can be seen here.

Although it is a small country in West Africa, the Ivory Coast is the world's largest producer of coffee and cocoa is also more cultivated products. The cocoa Plantation is made for decades, but many of the farmers never tasted chocolate. And why?

According to a report from CNN, cocoa producers are at the base of the world chocolate production chain â€" that is strongly against farmers, whether in the form of traders, exporters and manufacturers above them that require the most profit possible. This gives little or no bargaining power and very little money to farmers to sustain their families, much less to buy chocolate.

One of the farmers interviewed, who earns just over € 5 per day, says that doesn't know the fate of their grain after leaving the plantation and you can't buy a chocolate bar, which costs about € 2 in your community. Once you have tasted chocolate for the first time said he "didn't know that cocoa was so tasty". Later, the farmer has dished out the bar with his colleagues who also tasted chocolate for the first time. In the end, the farmer said: "we complain because cocoa farming is hard work. Now we can enjoy the result. And that privilege is being able to prove it, "cites the Inhabitat.

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