An Afro-Colombian farmer rolls the raw cacao paste with hands into balls in a chocolate manufacture in Cuernavaca, Cauca, Colombia.
Rigoberto Balanta, an Afro-Colombian farmer, rolls the raw cacao paste with hands into balls, used for hot chocolate preparation, in artisanal chocolate manufacture in Cuernavaca, Cauca, Colombia, 5 December 2021. Although cacao has been grown in Colombia for centuries, Colombian cacao production is focused primarily on the domestic market in which the demand for drinking chocolate plays a crucial part. Cacao trees have been cultivated mainly in small mixed crop farms, operated on sustainability principles. With the global growth of chocolate popularity and the Colombian post-conflict economic development in recent years, Colombian farmers are gradually increasing their cacao production and chocolate export.
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Location: Cuernavaca, Cauca, Colombia
Photo credit: © Jan Sochor / Alamy / Afripics
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