Cocoa Beans in Brazil

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Cocoa Beans in Brazil

• By Teddy(The Great One)
• and
• Paul

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About Cocoa Beans

• Cocoa beans came from cocoa trees!
• The cocoa beans originated in Brazil
• It is used to make your favorite chocolates
• The original name of the cocoa bean is cacao.
  The reason it is now called cocoa was because of
  a spelling error.
• Cocoa beans are very sensitive ( as you can read
  in the factors part.
• Other info can be seen in other parts of the
  show.

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Growing Cocoa Beans!

• Grown in hot wet countries (like Brazil)
• Very sensitive so cocoa beans are planted under
  tall umbrella trees to be protected from sun and
  wind.
• The protection is extreme when 2-4 years of
  growth.
• In the5th year, it will bear.
• You will need a lot of experience to tell whether
  the plant is ripe or not.
• These are the main importance in growing cocoa.
  The factors will tell you more.

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Cocoa Locations
Brown major cocoa bean growing areas Yellow
major chocolate production locations
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Physical and Human Factors

• Physical factors
• The cacao bean grows best in a climate that is
  hot and wet.
• The cacao bean is then cultivated to grow in 20
  degrees north or south.
• Needs rain
• Soil should be rich as cocoa and like many other
  plants need rich soil.
• This is just the climate in Brazil.

• Human Factors
• Since the cacao tree is so weak and sensitive the
  farmers plant bigger trees and grow them as
  shelter for the cocoa beans. This is probably the
  most important priority.
• It requires training to be able to know if the
  cacao pod is ripe and ready to be cut.
• Since the cacao tree is so weak and frail the
  workers risk killing the tree is they climb the
  tree to collect the pods higher up, so the
  workers use special knives to do that. But when
  they get them down they normally use a machete to
  cut the pod in half.

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Varieties of Cocoa

• There are 3 kinds
• Criollo
• Forastero
• Trinitario

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What do these Cocoa Beans turn Into?

• Chocolate!! Which makes
• Choc Shake
• Kisses
• Ice-Cream
• Dirty Mouths
• Mars
• Eminems or M and Ms
• Olvantine
• Kit Kat
• Snickers
• Crunch
• Smarties.

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