cocoa. Other than oil palm and rubber industry, the one of the commodity crop in Malaysia is cocoa industry (Azhar I and Lee. M. T, 2004). Unfortunately, the area of cocoa plantation on 1989 is 414 236 ha and the cocoa bean production on 1990 that produce 247 000 tonnes cocoa bean and it decline to 45 365 ha and 36 236 tonnes in 2003, it is because the area has been dominate by oil palm plantation (1). The amount of cocoa plantation are still decline…
Helena Maria Viramontes’ short story “The Moths” follows a latina narrator as she recounts her childhood struggles with religion and family. To escape beatings from her father, her mother would send the narrator to “help Abuelita plants wild lilies” and other plants in “coffee cans”(322). Throughout the turmoil of her teenage years, the narrator’s Abuelita was always there to care for her. As the story continues, it is divulged that this time the help will be different because Mama Luna is dying…
Coffee is grown mainly in sub-tropical regions including rainforests, and some plantations are grown in tropical savannahs. There are two ways to grow coffee — shade cultivation and sun cultivation, and two types of coffee grown commercially— robusta and higher quality arabica. Coffee was previously shade-grown, but now ‘sun cultivation’ is becoming more popular and widely used as it produces higher yields faster than shade cultivation. Producing coffee requires deforestation and land clearing.…
Aztecs did, a brief history of hot chocolate and the cocoa bean itself and its cultivation is in order.…
1 “Antigone” is mainly about the conflict between the ruler Creon, who has decreed that Polyneices shall not be buried, and Antigone, who wants to give her brother the proper burial rites. Antigone does not change throughout the course of the play, in fact one of her most defining qualities is her stubbornness and resolve to do what she thinks is right. Antigone serves as a foil to Creon in that she places the Gods’ values over the human rule of law, whereas Creon enforces the law to a fault…
Product Differentiation Ben and Jerry’s produce their products in environmentally, animal friendly ways and supporting local farmers especially from Vermont (Dennis, Neck, & Goldsby, 1998). All farmers who provided dairy had agreed to use no bovine growth hormone (BGH) (Polk, 2014). This has made their ice cream become an all-natural and high quality in the same time. In 1998 Ben & Jerry’s introduced the eco-pint, the ice cream industry’s first pint container made from unbleached paperboard,…
cocoa industry has made it difficult for anyone to see what is happening on the farms. Food Empowerment Project also states that most children working on these farms are between the ages of 5 and 16. The children have to use Machetes to cut the cocoa bean from the trees and to open it. “These large, heavy, dangerous…
As we are all aware, millions of American families had once immigrated from other countries. Although moving to America brought hope for a new life and a brighter future, many struggle to adjust and adapt to the ways of an American lifestyle. Immigrating does not have to be the prime reason people have trouble identifying themselves with a certain group. Many people can feel just as isolated, or even more so, in their own homeland. Finding a place you can call your own, feeling like you…
In the book the Bean Trees the author Kingsolver, depicts the way that men treat Taylor and Lou Ann to show how their is still sexism in Whatcom County and all over the world. Kingsolver writes about sexism both knowingly and also unaware. This shows how sexism is more of a common item in society today rather than something unusual. In the book men were the ones who were sextist towards the women. The main character Taylor, who is very self-reliant person and doesn't need a man to help her, ends…
The distinct aroma of manure is a familiar scent that is prominent in all the towns in Lancaster County. Except there is one town, by the name of Lititz, that smells of sweet chocolate. Lititz won the Coolest Small Town award in 2013 putting itself on the map as a go to tourist destination. The leap this town made did not come overnight nor did it come easy. One large factor in the success of this small town was the introduction of the H.O. Wilbur & Sons Chocolate Factory on April 17,…