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Chocolate is made from cacao beans. They are
mostly grown in West African countries such as
Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. About 3,200,000 tons of
cacao beans are grown there every year. Japan
imports about 40,000 tons of cacao beans annually
on average, and more than 70 percent are from
Ghana.
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Many people enjoy the sweet taste of chocolate,
but have you ever thought about where chocolate
comes from?
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出典: CCAJ 統計 「日本の主
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many tons of cacao beans does Japan import annually on average?
In West Africa, cacao farmers are very poor
because their cacao beans are sold at low prices.
Therefore, many parents cannot send their children
to school. Also, they often make their children work
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According to UNICEF, the number of such
children is about 50,000. Moreover, the children
working on the farms do heavy physical labor. For
example, they carry twenty-kilogram baskets full of
cacao beans on their heads all day long.
Questions
1 Why are the cacao farmers in West Africa ve
Do the children working on cacao farms do
