In the early 1900s, Ecuador was the world’s largest cocoa producing country, however shifts in the global marketplace and crop disease led its position to fall. Today, the country is most known for its high-grade single-origin chocolate, with farms seen across the Amazon rainforest....
Côte d'Ivoire is the biggest cocoa producer in the world, producing over half of the worldwide cocoa beans.
The profits of chocolate companies—and their empires—have swelled so much that they exceed the entire GDPs of cocoa-producing nations. The collective wealth of the Ferrero and Mars families has soared to $160.9 billion, outsizing the summed-up GDPs of the leading global coco...
Cocoa prices reached a historic high of nearly $10,000 per metric ton in 2024, pushing chocolate prices up over the past year. Despite most cacao being produced in West Africa, the largest chocolate manufacturing hubs are concentrated in Europe, dominated by multinationals like Mars, Mondelēz, ...
The country is 5th largest producer of cereals which makes it 15th on the list of top 20 agricultural producing countries in the world. South Africa is also well-known for its quality exports of grapes, fruit wine and sugarcane. 13. Ethiopia ...
The cocoa industry itself has also been on the rise, with the Ivory Coast being the most prolific cocoa-producing country. However, the industry has long been plagued with issues around ethical labor standards and practices, and consumers are beginning to demand more transparency from chocolate com...
In Ghana, Feb 14 is celebrated as the “National Chocolate Day.” It is a step that the Ghana government took in 2007 to increase tourism in the country. Ghana is among the largest cocoa-producing countries in the world. On Feb 14, one can attend performances, music events, and restauran...
Tea, coffee and cocoa (可可饮料) are three main drinks all over the world. The largest number of people drink tea in the world. Tea, as well as silk and porcelain(瓷器), began to be famous in the world over a thousand years ago. Tea has a history of over 4,000 years and China ...
This statistic shows the leading global sugar beet producers in 2022, based on production volume. In that year, Poland was ranked as sixth largest sugar beet producing country with a production volume of around 14.15 million metric tons of sugar beet. ...
Mondelēz International and cocoa supplier Olam Food Ingredients (OFI) are collaborating in Indonesia to create the world’s single largest sustainable commercial cocoa farm.