Ingredient Group Wholesale supply of food ingredients. the main About company Product Catalog Specifications (edit) Online order Contacts the main The world is in danger of a shortage of chocolate. 27 September, 2016 - 16:22 | editor African farmers have warned that the world will be without sweets. A low harvest of cocoa beans is expected this year. The authorities of Côte d'Ivoire said that the current agricultural season will close with a significant deficit. Due to the drought, farmers will harvest 100,000 tonnes less cocoa than last year. Indonesia made a similar forecast. Confectioners are forced to change the recipe for desserts. Almost every season, farmers complain about the poor cocoa harvest. They refer to global warming, drought, or vice versa - excess rainfall. Against the backdrop of a decline in production, global consumption of chocolate is only growing. Mainly due to Asians. Over the past five to six years in this region, the demand for delicacies has grown by 30%. On the other hand, for the largest producers, on the contrary, it is more profitable to increase plantations, because the world's population still continues to grow, incomes continue to grow, and it can be expected that the demand for products made from cocoa beans, the same chocolate, will also increase. ... Raw materials for the future chocolate are grown in 45 countries, but 90% of the global volume is accounted for by only eight countries: Indonesia, Nigeria, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Malaysia, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. Manufacturers know that the sweet tooth in the Western world depends on them, and they take advantage of it. Exchange prices for cocoa beans, butter and powder are growing by 15-20% annually. There is an opinion that the plantations are not developed on purpose, the deficit is created artificially. Why can't you grow more cocoa beans? A question that plagues everyone who works in this industry. Maybe it’s a policy, maybe it’s easier for them to get the same profit from less volume, simply selling more expensive. Nobody knows the correct answer. In Russia, the global rise in the price of cocoa components also coincided with a sharp drop in the national currency. Manufacturers of confectionery products cannot proportionally increase prices for the final product, otherwise sweets will become an elite delicacy, accessible to few, with weak sales volumes. In this situation, manufacturers keep prices either by reducing their margins, or by reducing the most expensive components - cocoa butter and cocoa liquor. Substitution occurs at the expense of similar cheaper components, the so-called cocoa butter equivalents, a cheaper powder. Naturally, in the market, many manufacturers of the middle and lower middle segment in terms of quality have already changed the recipe, adjusting it to the economy. To increase the production of cocoa beans, the authorities of several Central American countries have already decided to focus on the cultivation of the chocolate tree. Thus, farmers in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras are advised to abandon coffee crops in favor of cocoa - the cultivation of chocolate plantations is three times cheaper than coffee. (the article uses materials from the site candynet.ru) Search on the site: Language versions: English version Random photo Login to the system Username: * Password: * Forgot your password? All rights reserved by ingredientgroup (c) | Designed by fa © st