cocoa farmers
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcocoaandfarmer
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cocoa
noun[U]
uk/ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/us/ˈkoʊ.koʊ/
a dark brown powder made from cocoa beans, used to make chocolate and add a chocolate flavour to food ...
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farmer
noun[C]
uk/ˈfɑː.mər/us/ˈfɑːr.mɚ/
someone who owns or takes care of ...
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(Definition ofcocoaandfarmerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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To finance the debt, he raised taxes on the cocoa farmers in the south.
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In addition, cocoa farmers received more favourable prices for their crops.
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This situation was compounded by the old age of the vast majority of cocoa farmers.
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Despite vigorous attempts by cocoa farmers to reduce the cost of production, their efforts were not nearly enough to stem the tide of decline.
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During this period, increasing amounts of cash circulated among cocoa farmers and the growing urban populations.
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Also, a large number of the artisans, mechanics and teachers she interviewed were children of cocoa farmers.
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Real incomes of cocoa farmers in 1983 were 12 per cent of their value in 1974.
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Further, the children of cocoa farmers, who formed an important part of farm labour, joined this cavalcade into the urban centres.
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Increases in cocoa holdings between 1950 and the mid-1960s were very marginal indeed, and the vast majority of cocoa farmers stopped buying new cocoa land (interviews, 1989-91).
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High prices tempted cocoa farmers into unsustainable consumption patterns, according to the paper, and when prices inevitably fell, farmers were thrown into the clutches of moneylenders.
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Berry states that a substantial number of the children of cocoa farmers she interviewed in the two villages were either going to school or engaged in non-agricultural activities.
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He was concerned about what would happen to the cocoa farmers after liberalisation of the cocoa market, fearing greatly the entry of the private market.
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High prices for cocoa in recent years have greatly reduced the difficulties of the cocoa farmers.
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There are a large number of cocoa farmers.
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No longer would cocoa farmers and their community and country merely wave their precious bounty goodbye, underpaid for it and divorced from the final product.
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The critical report led partly to the abolishment of a loan scheme that was open to cocoa farmers.
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Indeed, some studies show that about one-fourth of all cocoa farmers receive just over half of total cocoa income.
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In general, the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides by cocoa farmers is limited.
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