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Read the passage and answer the question.The raw ingredient used to make chocolate is cocoa beans grown in tropical equatorial regions. The oval-shaped cocoa pod — similar to a rugby ball and weighing from 250 g (8.8 oz) to 1 kg (2.2 lbs) — has a hard husk approximately 1 cm (0.4 inches) thick. Inside the husk is a white pulp that protects the cocoa beans, with a single pod containing 30 to 40 beans. Cocoa beans are not simply removed from the harvested cocoa pod. Instead, the entire pod (pulp included) undergoes fermentation involving a combination of high ambient temperatures and humidity as well as natural microorganisms. Most of the pulp liquefies due to changes it undergoes during fermentation, leaving only the cocoa beans.

Where are most cocoa beans grown?

a. Northeast region
b. equatorial regions
c. Pacific west
d. Midwest region​

Answer 1

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in Equatorial regions most cocoa beans are grown

Answer 2

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Full Text Available The agroforestry systems with cocoa are good for many purposes and they give many products to a diversity of soil users, among them, to the families of the producers in their environment. The objective of the research was to evaluate the socioeconomic and productive factors in agroforestry systems with fine aroma cocoa of export, in the El Vergel parish of the Valencia canton, county of Los Ríos, Ecuador. A survey to a random sample of 35 farmers of El Vergel parish was carried out, to evaluate socioeconomic and productivevariables. A descriptive analysis was applied to the data of the surveys. Most of the interviewed producers (71,4 % ignore on agroforestry systems. The farmers possess among 0,63 up to 10 hectares. 100 % of them cultivates the fine aroma cocoa, like main cultivation and other secondary cultivations where they stand out the forest species (48,6 %. The families are conformed by 49,5 % males and 50,5 % women. Most of the farmers (males and women are home bosses, with an age that fluctuates among 45 to 54 years. Alone 37 % of the members of the home is devoted

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