Thursday, November 18, 2010
I should cocoa
Spent the last couple of days in the town of Takoradi which is Ghana's second port and main port used to export cocoa beans all over the world. Ghana claims to have the highest quality cocoa beans in the world and they sell about 600 thousand tons per year and climbing. Most of the beans are sent abroad for processing in to products used in chocolate making but Ghana is slowly beginning to process some of the beans themselves and earning more money that way.....walking round a couple of processing plants the smell was divine mmmmm......chocolate! Mind you I imagine after a few weeks you'd probably be sick of the smell! And finally a note about the amazing guys who unload and load the bags of beans in and out of the warehouses....they carry these, African stylee, on their heads and shoulders like they're carrying a bag of sugar but these bags aren't one KG they are 64 KG!!!! Thats like carrying a not so small person on your head! And they probably load / unload a few hundred of these bags per day for no doubt a pittance. They are seriously tough these guys.
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ReplyDeleteReminds me of the porters in Nepal, carrying huge loads, nowadays often supplies for trekkers. Check this out: http://tinyurl.com/38zot5s
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