Yeah... you read it RIGHT..!!!
I was reading newspaper, and this really small article about chocolates caught my eye...!! Chocolate's production gonna decline drastically in next 20 years... and hence, its consumption..!! :(
In a world that takes for granted the availability of delicious and affordable chocolate, it's easy to forget that the popular product actually comes from trees -- not magical elves or free-flowing cocoa rivers, sadly. But, some experts are predicting that in a matter of decades a drop in production due to changing weather and agriculture incentives may make chocolate 'as expensive as gold'. In 20 years chocolate will be like caviar. It will become so rare and so expensive that the average person just won't be able to afford it. The reason behind the worry is that we're consuming more chocolate than we're producing cocoa which is notoriously difficult to harvest. Added to that is the recent drought in Western Africa and unrest in the Ivory Coast (the world's biggest cocoa producer) which when combined with rising consumer taste for cocoa-rich dark chocolate, raises concerns about a shortage in supply in the not-too-distant future.
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