为了防止更多的农民改变种植方式，英国新成立的国际可可控制中心（InternationalCocoa Control Centre）的研究人员正在尝试种植更强壮、生长更快的可可树。
To prevent more farmers from changing, researchers at the newly opened International Cocoa Control Centre, in the UK, are trying to create new cocoa plants that are stronger and faster growing.
巧克力来自可可树。
可可树只能生长在高温多雨的热带雨林。
Cacao trees can only grow in rainforests, where it is very hot and rainy all the time.
可可树结出硕大的棕色果实，叫做可可豆荚，豆荚里面是可可豆。
The cacao tree gets large brown fruits called cocoa pods, and inside the pods are cocoa beans.
难道你不想在自己的花园里拥有一棵可可树，享有独家的巧克力供应吗？
Wouldn't you like to have a cacao tree in your garden so you could have your own special supply of chocolate?
最早种植可可树来制作巧克力的是玛雅人，几千年前他们生活在墨西哥。
The first people to grow cacao trees for chocolate were the Mayans, who lived in Mexico thousands of years ago.
可可树最初来子美洲的热带雨林中。
Cocoa trees are originally from the rainforests of the Americas.
巧克力来源于可可树，产于加勒比。
野生可可树实际上是不会死的。
可可树广泛生长于西非的热带森林中。
The cocoa tree grows widely in the tropical forests of West Africa.
可可树的某些特定疾病的传播也得以减缓了。
在这些条件下可可树只能存活30年甚至更少。
Under these conditions the trees live only 30 years or less.
可可豆(实际上就是可可子)生长在可可树的豆荚中。
饿了的时候，我边啃可可树的根须边喝金凤花上的露水。
When I got hungry, I could nibble on chocolate root and sip dew from a buttercup.
但是现在，科学家描绘出了其中两种可可树的基因图谱。
But now scientists have genetic maps of two kinds of cocoa trees.
可可树生长在炎热多余的非洲，亚洲，中美洲和南美洲地区。
Cacao or cocoa trees grow in hot, rainy areas of Africa, Asia and Central and South America.
于是可可树就很容易干枯死亡，紧接着农民必须砍掉这些新生的森林补丁。
The trees die, and the farmers must cut down new patches of forest.
欧洲人发现中美洲时，可可树由墨西哥的阿芝特克人和秘鲁的印加人所种植。
Cocoa trees were being grown by the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru when the Europeans discovered central America.
可可树在第十年的时候产量是最高的。但是之后的很长一段时间依然非常高产。
The trees produce the most pods when they are ten, but they are still productive long after that.
然而现在很多农民开始在潮湿阴暗的环境下种植可可树，从而大大增加了它们的寿命。
But some farmers plant cocoa under shade trees, increasing the life span of the cocoa trees.
在中墨西哥，阿兹太克人认为智慧和权力来自于可可树果实的食用，其富有营养，增强体质，甚至有壮阳作用。
In central Mexico, the Aztecs believed that wisdom and power came from eating the fruit of the cocoa tree, and that it had nourishing, fortifying, and even aphrodisiac qualities.
葡萄牙人JoseFerreira Gomes把可可树当作装饰性植物引进了位于西非几内亚海湾的普林西比岛。
The Portuguese Jose Ferreira Gomes introduces the cocoa tree as an ornamental plant on the small island of Principe in the Gulf of Guinea off the west coast of Africa.
一种被叫做可可树的东西,这种基于可可粉的啤酒酿造技术源自拥有3200年历史的巧克力发源地的陶瓷碎片的制作分析,位于洪都拉斯的Ulua山谷.
Called Theobroma, this cocoa-based brew was hatched from a chemical analysis of 3,200-year-old pottery fragments from the Cradle of Chocolate, the Ulua Valley in Honduras.
大部分的可可树归人数约为900000的小农户所有。一旦杀虫剂等物品价格上涨，他们就会相应的减少用量(以保持成本不增加)，正如2008年他们所做的那样。
Most trees are owned by around 900, 000 smallholders who often scale back on insecticides when their costs rise, as they did in 2008.
可可树结实三十年后，（单株）产量就会下降。据巴克莱投资银行SudakshinaUnnikrishnan称，最近一批可可开始结实是在20世纪七十年代。
The yields of cocoa trees drop after 30 years of production and the last planting cycle was in the 1970s, according to Sudakshina Unnikrishnan of Barclays Capital.
可可树结实三十年后，（单株）产量就会下降。据巴克莱投资银行SudakshinaUnnikrishnan称，最近一批可可开始结实是在20世纪七十年代。
The yields of cocoa trees drop after 30 years of production and the last planting cycle was in the 1970s, according to Sudakshina Unnikrishnan of Barclays Capital.
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