Choose a Fairtrade product.
Where is this product produced?
Identify the optimal climate/terrain for this product to be
produced.
Can you research the journey/footprints of this product from
where it is grown to the supermarket?
This homework is due in on Monday, 3rd February 2014.
As my Fairtrade product, I have chosen chocolate because I want to learn more about it and it is really yummy! Fairtrade chocolate comes from Ghana, Africa. The chocolate is grown in cacao fields and there are about 25,000 farmers involved with the cacao growing of Fairtrade in Ghana.
ReplyDeleteThe cacao trees naturally grow in temperatures within 20 degrees Celsius any side of the equator because it needs 2000 millimetres of rainfall a year. The temperature needs to be about 21 to 32 degrees Celsius. Cacao trees can not survive temperatures below 15 degrees Celsius.
The footprints of Fairtrade chocolate:
1. Farmers grow an harvest the cacao beans.
2. The beans would brew in banana or plantain for 6 days. The chocolatey taste and colour will be starting to produce.
3. The beans are spread out on tables in the sun for 10 days.
4. The beans are put into sacks and taken to the local Kuapa Kokoo ( it means good cocoa farmer in Twi, the language that is spoken in Ghana) to be weighed.
5. The farmers are paid if the Ghanaian government accept the cacao.
6. The beans are transported to companies as well as Fairtrade companies.
My fairtrade product is chocolate because I don't know much about chocolate so that's why I have been researching it.
ReplyDeleteWhere is chocolate found?:
Chocolate is found in Ghana,Africa on Cocoa trees cocoa trees are grown in cocoa Felids near the equator it needs 20 degrees Celsius to survive also 200cm of rain.
Cocoa trees can't survive at temperatures under 15 degrees Celsius.
Farmers:
There are lots of farmers included there are around 25,000 farmers the farmers carry a large knife to chop the cocoa pods.
How is it delivered from the farmer to the shops?:
1)plantation owners find nice ground.
2)farmers grow , chop the cocoa pods and collect the cocoa beans.
3)the beans are put out in the sun for 240 hours
4)the chocolate taste is produced
5)the shiper ships the chocolate cocoa to the cooperative the cooperative makes the chocolate
6)then the shiper takes it all around the world
7)the chocolate is taken in a truck from the sea into the city
8)the chocolate is bought by super markets and put in stock
That is how chocolate is transported from Ghana to all around the world.
Chocolate
ReplyDeleteFrom Ghana
Cocoa trees are grown in cocoa Fields near the equator it needs 20 degrees Celsius to survive also 200 cm of rain.
1)plantation owners find nice ground.
2)farmers grow , chop the cocoa pods and collect the cocoa beans and make it lovely/.
3)the beans are put out in the sun
4)the chocolate taste is produced
5)the shipper ships the chocolate cocoa to the cooperative the cooperative makes the chocolate
6)then the shipper takes it all around the world
7)the chocolate is taken in a truck from the sea into the city
8)the chocolate is bought by super markets and put in stock
That is how chocolate is transported from Ghana to all around the world.
My fiartrade prodoct would be choclate becuse even though I know alot about I want to know as much as I can about it normaly you have to be very carful how you harvest it you harvest it and bring it to the shops and it could melt so you have to be carfjl how you place it but lhckly they have
ReplyDeletea special way how to do it so it normalu never goes wrong
My favorite fairtrade product is cocoa beans because it is interesting (and yummy!) and I will like to learn more about it:
ReplyDeleteWhere does fairtrade cocoa beans come from?
Cocoa beans come from Ghana in Africa. The cocoa beans grows in a 15 meter tree.They need to wait for a cocoa pod to grown in a cocoa tree then they have to wait then to harvest it and inside the cocoa pod are the cocoa beans.
Identify the optimal climate/terrain for cocoa beans produce?
There are about 25,000 farmers In the cocoa fields where they need to harvest cocoa beans for us.In the cocoa field where they grow cocoa pods need to be 20-30 degrees Celsius for the trees to survive. If the degrees under 20 degrees Celsius , the tree will die.
Can you research the journey / footprint of cocoa beans from where it grows to the supermarket ?
1. The farmers need to grow the cocoa pods then harvest them.
2. They check the cocoa pods if there good or not.
3. They take the cocoa beans out of the cocoa pod and then wash them and put them in a container with a fairtrade sticker on it.
4. They put it in a box and ship them to different countries.
5. The they transport the to the supermarket.
I have chosen CHOCOLATE as my Fairtrade product.product. This is how it is made:
ReplyDelete1.Firstly the plantation owner needs to find some vast and warm,so they beans can the cocoa grow,place to grow the beans.
2.Then farmers grow,chop and finally collect the cocoa beans.
3.Then the cocoa beans are kept out of the sun.
4.The chocolate taste is then formed.
5.The shipper than ships the chocolate to a co-operative.
6.The co-operative then makes it into fine chocolate.
7.It is then passed back on to the shipper who then ships it all around the world.
8.The chocolate is then taken by a huge truck into the city.
9.The chocolate is bought by supermarkets and put on the shelves of the store.
10.The chocolate is then bought by many people who intend to devour the whole!
Some more information:
The cocoa beans actually come from a place called Ghana in Africa.
The cocoa workers actually work for 10-14 hours each day.