As Chocolate Week draws to a close, our final blog of the week is this cocoa photo story. On a recent trip to Ghana, a team from Magnum Ice-cream visited Rainforest Alliance Certified cocoa farms and met the farmers who produce the cocoa used in their Magnum Ghana ice creams. Photographer, Fjona Hill accompanied the team to Ghana and took these beautiful images… Read the rest of this entry ?
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Cocoa Farming in Ghana for Magnum Ice Cream
11/10/2011As part of Chocolate Week, we asked journalist Veronique Mistiaen to write a guest blog about her recent trip to Ghana with Magnum Ice Cream , where she visited Rainforest Alliance Certified™ cocoa farms.
Credit: Fjona Hill
The early morning sun is filtering through the dark green cocoa leaves. Men and women in bright wax-print clothing move efficiently amongst the dense, short trees. A woman, balancing a large woven basket on her head, breaks into a song and the other farmers join in, their voices echoing through the cocoa farm. It is harvest time at Gold Coast camp, one of several farming communities in the Assin Fosu district of Ghana’s central region, producing premium cocoa beans for Magnum ice cream.
Men select ripe yellow and orange cocoa pods, which look like elongated, ribbed melons, and cut them from the tree trunks with machetes. They work with fast, precise movements, careful not to damage the trunks, so that new pods can grow back. Women collect the freshly cut pods and gather them in a large colourful heap. Read the rest of this entry ?
