Do not let behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
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Do not let behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
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CHOCALYPTO: The END of chocolate Easter Eggs in 2025 If I say Easter, you say Egg! Easter and eggs have long been associated together. It was in 1875, that Cadbury gave the world its first ‘branded’ chocolate Easter egg. So why is it that in only 150 years the world is going to reach a stage where there will be no more chocolate Easter eggs? Yes! You read that right. April 20, 2025 is Easter Sunday, same as this year, but there will be a big difference 11 years from now! No more chocolate Easter Eggs for the egg hunt! Please allow me to share my views with you that have been formed over the past 30 months that I have spent in a major cocoa (the key ingredient in chocolate) growing area. Some fun facts first: Four countries in West Africa – Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon account for 70% of the world’s cocoa supply. The balance is made up of primarily Indonesia, Ecuador and Brazil. Why this geographical concentration? Simply because cocoa as a plant needs a hot and humid climate (plentiful rain and plentiful sunshine) to survive and thrive, which is best provided in a narrow window about 15-degrees north and 15-degrees south of the equator as seen in the map below showing the key cocoa growing countries. So what exactly is the problem? Demand for chocolate is rising far more rapidly than supply. India is now the world's fastest growing market for chocolate. China is also showing a growing taste for the confectionery. The current supply was barely enough to satisfy the appetites of the traditional purveyors of chocolate in Europe and North America. If these Asian giants join the party, then there will not be enough cocoa to go around for everyone. The major problem is that roughly five million farmers produce about four million tons of cocoa in a year. The bane of cocoa farming is the small land holdings of the farmers involved. A ton of cocoa sells just shy of $3,000 in the market. If you are a farmer producing a ton of cocoa then your annual income is $3,000 on which you need to support a family of six to ten. [Indicative figures to stress a point. The reality is a little more complex] Aging farmers and lack of interest in the younger generation to carry on the farming business. Point 2 makes it clear why. Aging trees. A cocoa tree reaches peak production in its fifth year after planting. It will yield at this peak level for another 10 years. Most of the trees in West Africa have an average age of 20, which means their peak productive years are behind them. Other soft commodities offering better returns like palm and rubber. Cocoa is a very temperamental plant that needs a lot of care, and with the consecutive years of low prices, the farmers have become discouraged. The governments are focusing on other sources of foreign exchange earnings like oil, as is the case in Nigeria. Nigeria as a country could easily triple its cocoa output in five years, but is plagued by government apathy. The government continues to turn a blind eye to all the ills in the industry, and allows all manner of agencies to levy and tax the cocoa to such an extent that what finally reaches the farmer is a pittance. New sources of income. Last week there was a story that farmers are abandoning cocoa farming as they are finding gold on their farms. The gold dust is providing better returns than cocoa. So, will we really run out of chocolate in 11 years? No, but it might be greatly diminished though. Will everyone be able to afford what’s available for sale? Perhaps. Will it still taste like chocolate? Probably not. Well, folks, I am one of the last people on earth whom you can label an alarmist, but I honestly see the current situation surrounding cocoa as grim. Is there any hope to redeem the situation? I am a die-hard optimist by nature, and believe the answer is a resounding YES! Over the course of the next few months I will be sharing stories of hope about changes being made by a lot of good people joining hands together to tackle this issue. I WISH ALL OF YOU A VERY HAPPY AND A CHOCOLATY EASTER!!! Photo 1: continentalicecream Photo 2: Taylah Rich Chocolate (Disclaimer: None of this information should be construed as investment advice in cocoa futures. All views expressed here are my own, and are not endorsed by Olam or any of their promoters) Author : Peter 'Raj' Sayal
How To Copy Text from Facebook On Iphone? Using facebook on iphone is pretty simple and easy. You just need to have an Internet connection for your mobile device and you are ready to use it. Also downloading a facebook application is really easy as it comes free from the Apple Store as compared to using facebook through your safari browser because it takes a lot of time for the page to load if the posts are rather large or contain multiple items including videos, pics, and loads of content in a single post, but the real problem that comes with the facebook application on iphone is of copying text. So what's the solution for this? Try it yourself and see that you will not be able to copy text directly from a friend's post if you are using a facebook app on iphone. So the solution is simple and there is no other way to do that. If you really want to copy text from facebook on your iphone: You will need to log on your FB account using the safari browser. Now after the page loads and you see some interesting content that you want to copy and share with your friends via email or on your blog, you need to press right on the content part and a small blue icon will appear as it appears when you are cropping an image on your FB profile page. In the next step, you need to press on the white dot points with two fingers, one up and one beneath, to expand and get how much part of text you want to copy. After doing that, tap once on that part and an icon "copy" will appear. Press on the "copy" icon to copy the text. Now paste this text anywhere you want, for example, if you want to paste this text into an email to be sent to your friends, then open your email account on iPhone and while creating a new email and adding subject, tap once on the text section of the email and an icon "paste" will appear. Press that icon and the text will be pasted inside the new email. Your email is ready to be sent to the recipients. Now if you want to paste this text into your blog on blogger or somewhere else online, then open up your blog account, create a new post, and paste this content directly into that post right after adding the blog title. So I think now you got that. Isn't this really easy? So you just need to keep in mind that it is not possible for anyone to copy text directly from an FB app on iphone as it is a waste of time and nothing else. I have written this stuff today because if I have found several articles online that misguide iPhone users stating that it is possible to copy text from an FB app but the real truth is it is not. The only way to copy text from FB on iphone is by logging in via the safari browser. |