Comments by "Sedna063" (@Sedna063) on "Ghana Grows Our Cocoa, So Why Can’t It Make Chocolate? | Big Business" video.

  1. Rwanda to Ghana is more than 3000 kilometers... You would have to use powdered milk and then transport it through the DRC; a notoriously unstable region.
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  2. Fly in milk? Are you aware how costly it is to fly in milk? Air transport is the most expensive form of transport and milk is not a high value product that justifiably can be transported by freight jet.
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  3. If they stop exporting, do you think the average cocoa farmer will have more? No, the buyers will just look elsewhere. Perhaps Cote d'Ivoire. Since the relative scarcity will raise prices, the Ivorians will profit and the farmers in Ghana will go home without anything in the pocket. Unless they form a cartel, nothing changes. But then chocolate isn't a business that is vital to the world. Chocolate is a luxury product and not oil. So any cartel would not have the same impact on chocolate the way OPEC had on oil
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  4. Or bars. Not the beans, the cocoa bars that can be used to further process into fine chocolare.
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  5. The manufacturers will find an additional supply and hence no money...
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  6.  @deuscoromat742  Colonialism is an easy excuse for everything. Not saying that colonialism was good, it was bad and crippled a lot of countries.
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  7.  @jackblack704  Nobody disputes that they need to be able to make a living! Prices for chocolate must rise. But the way some view this is just dumb. You can't just copy the western chocolate market and then hope to export it to Europe. That just won't work. Developing alternative chocolate products which are more enduring in Africa would be a way forward; as they would not face stiff competition from entrenched traditional makers.
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  8.  @deuscoromat742  It crippled others though..
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  9. Because milk is not a stable of Ghanaian cuisine.
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  10. How is this slavery?
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  11. So if we were not buying those raw materials, do you think things would be better? If we don't buy, Ghana won't have a source of income.
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  12. Transporting milk from India to Ghana... A journey by ship for weeks and more than 10,000 kilometers. This will make Ghanaian chocolate prohibitively costly.
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  13.  @doroparker1702  Absolutely correct. Milk should be a home grown product. Provides jobs for farmers. Alternatively use some plant based milk alternative maybe? Africa most likely grows crops that can be used for this.
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  14. Yeah, better focus to find a market at home first.
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  15. Chocolate can be produced everywhere. Cocoa, not.
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  16. Not everything is CIA and MI6 lol...
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