{"id":2385,"date":"2025-05-01T14:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T08:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2025-05-01T14:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T08:42:40","slug":"q-which-of-the-following-countries-are-well-known-as-the-two-largest-cocoa-producers-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-which-of-the-following-countries-are-well-known-as-the-two-largest-cocoa-producers-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Q. Which of the following countries are well known as the two largest cocoa producers in the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>Algeria and Morocco<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Botswana and Namibia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cote d\u2019 Ivoire Coast and Ghana<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Madagascar and Mozambique<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (c) Cote d\u2019 Ivoire Coast and Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"notes-hd-6812e4c3ecab2\">Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Cocoa, a native to the Americas<\/strong>, was a valuable crop in the earliest South American cultures. The term cocoa originated from the Nahuatl word \u201ccacahuatl\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many believe that the plant first grew in the Amazon and upper Orinoco basins but the Mayans and the Aztecs eventually developed techniques to cultivate cocoa successfully. The\u00a0<strong>plant was considered as a symbol of wealth for these civilizations and its beans were used as currency<\/strong>. Cocoa beans are the main ingredient for making chocolate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cocoa beans are produced in\u00a0<strong>tropical zones around the Equator,<\/strong>\u00a0where climate conditions are well suited for growing cocoa trees.\u00a0<strong>About 70 percent of the world\u2019s cocoa beans come from four West African countries: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Ivory Coast and Ghana are by far the two largest producers of cocoa, accounting for more than 50 percent of the world\u00b4s cocoa<\/strong>. In 2021, the Ivory Coast alone produced approximately 2.1 million metric tons of cocoa beans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Global-cocoa-bean-production.webp\" alt=\"Global cocoa bean production\" class=\"wp-image-51262\" style=\"width:824px;height:auto\" title=\"UPSC Prelims Research: Geography 2024 2\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (c) Cote d\u2019 Ivoire Coast and Ghana Notes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[37],"years":[49],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-geography","years-49"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":37,"label":"Geography"}],"years":[{"value":49,"label":"2024"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":37,"name":"Geography","slug":"geography","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":37,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}