Fair trade and chocolate

Fair trade is...

A trade organisation between producers, sellers and costumers. The goal is that the producers get fair pay

for their products.

With this presentation we want to show and tell you something about CHOCOLATE!

What are we going to show and tell you about chocolate?-We will talk about the chocolate bean and tree and

- where chocolate is planted.

We hope you like it!!

The cacao bean

The cacao tree

A cacao tree can grow to 15 metres high.

The flowers are not like the coffee and crop plants ruinous by bees but other small mosquitos. The

evergreen cacao tree flowers throughout the year under favorable conditions and also bears fruit throughout the year. The first bloom is at the age of five to six years.

The ripes, depending on the variety are green-yellow to red fruits up to 30 cm long and weigh up to 500 grams.

Cacao trees grow in a limited geographical zone, of approximately 20 degrees to the north and

south of the Equator.

The biggest producing countries are:Indonesia with 450.000 t

Ghana 380.000 tNigeria 340.000 t

The plants grown on plantations. On the plantations are also other trees like coconut palms, banana trees so that they donate to

shadow each other and protect each other from wind.

The production of chocolate

Chocolate is a key ingredient in many foods much as milk shakes, candy bars, cookies and cereals.

The process involves harvesting and refining cacao beans,

and shipping the cacao beans to manufacturers for cleaning, coaching and grinding.

These cacao beans will then be imported or exported to other countries and be transformed

into different type of chocolate products.

Step 1: Plucking and opening the pods

Cacao beans grow in pods that sprout off of the trunk and branches of cacao trees. The pods are about the

size of a football.

When the pods are ripe, harvesters travel though the cacao orchards with machetes and hack the pods

gently off of the trees.Workers must harvest the pods by hand.

The cacao pods are split open and the beans are removed.

Step 2: Fermenting the cacao seeds

Now the beans are placed in large, heated trays or covered with large banana leaves. If the climate is

right, they may be simply heated by the sun.

During fermentation is when the beans turn brown.

This process may take five to eight days.

Step 3 Drying the cacao seeds

After fermentation, the cacao seeds must be dried before they can be scooped into sacks and

shipped to chocolate manufacturers.

Farmers simply spread the fermented seeds on trays and leave them in the sun to dry. The drying

process usually takes about a week.

Here are some questions about chocolate. Did you learn something? ;-)

Questions

Name one of the biggest producing countries!

GhanaIndonesia

Nigeria

A cacao tree can grow to..................

high.

Answer

15 metres

How long is the fruit?

30 cm

The fruit weighs up to 500 gramms

Right or wrong?

Answer:

right

How many steps does the production process need?

3 steps

Which chocolate is it?

A) nut chocolate B) white chocolate C) brown chocolate

A) nut chocolate

Which chocolate is it?

A) milk chocolate B) white chocolate C) nut chocolate

B) white chocolate

Which chocolate is it?

A) strawberry chocolate B) banana chocolate C) milk chocolate

C) milk chocolate

That was our presentation from Germany,Wipperfürth.

We hoped you liked it and that you learned something about chocolate.

By: Nadine, Clara, Kati, Nic and Jan-Lukas Merve, Lisa, Pauline and Mrs. Sten