So many years without hearing from him, in the known world, and now it seems that the Mayan gods plant can you leave us …
Since the XNUMXth century, cocoa was exported to the world and with the elaboration of chocolate, its consumption has been growing in America and Europe gradually.
Its properties, tastes, refinement in the elaboration has been creating a consumption dependency that at any time someone in the world is consuming it.
According to the British newspaper, The Daily Mail, In a recent news item, experts are in a position to say that due to the high demand, which is also increasing every year, in the Asian continent, in 2020 it could disappear.
This is also related to the scarcity of cocoa beans and their extensive consumption can strangle their production.
In March, cocoa prices reached a record high in two and a half years, with a price of US $ 3.031 per ton in New York. Even the International Cocoa Organization has already indicated that in the same year 2020, there will be a deficit of 150 thousand tons of chocolate, the largest in more than 50 years.
Really due to the growing demand from countries such as China and India, with populations focused on their consumption, we should encourage the consumption of substitutes that provide similar properties,
Changing the habit of consuming chocolate for that of nuts can give that energy contribution that we know from the derivative of cocoa, but logically it is not the same to enjoy with a Ounce 70% cocoa with a coffee in the middle of the afternoon than to change this for a Tea with “panchitos“.
Let’s give free rein to the imagination to teach the thousands of inhabitants of the steppes, Siam and Kamchaka, another delicacy that is not “dying”, or teach them to plant cocoa, perhaps the most effective solution …