The amount of chocolate in the world is running out

One news that will be unhappy with many people is that the amount of chocolate in the world is tending to be depleted due to the rapid increase in demand while supply is experiencing great problems caused by many related problems.

The biggest problem causing this situation comes from global chocolate supply source located in West Africa, which is facing prolonged drought, resulting in narrowing of cocoa production, the main source of materials to create chocolate.

In addition, not to mention the West African region is also facing many dangerous diseases related to plants and people such as Moniliophthora roreri and Ebola outbreaks are spreading strongly. many pitiful deaths for West African people. This is also one of the main reasons for the lower volume of cocoa at this time, leading to a serious shortage of chocolate worldwide.

According to statistics, people are consuming more than 70,000 tons of cocoa per year, which is far above the annual production. It is expected that this figure will increase rapidly and reach 1 million tons by 2020 and 2 million tons by 2030.

In the countries with the highest chocolate consumption today are Chinese names. The country is consuming a large amount of chocolate including black chocolate, high-priced chocolate and has many good effects on human health.

There are many agricultural research projects that have found a way to develop a new type of cocoa tree that can produce very high yields with 7 times the number of existing cocoa trees. However, it is difficult to predict whether this future cocoa tree can change chocolate flavor.

In the long term, if the cocoa situation continues to be deficient, it is likely that people will have to use other ingredients to create artificial chocolate with similar flavor to serve the increasing demand. constantly of people about this sweet and attractive food. However, it will certainly be a bad news for the vast majority of users and love the original chocolate flavor all over the world.

Reference: Geek