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"In the past cocoa was Ghana, " said Ato Ahwoi, a cocoa dealer.
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Cocoa Mitchell, 52, said she missed work to attend the event in Harlem, where she was born.
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"Ivory Coast's introduction of a minimum price was an extraordinary gesture in recognizing the importance of cocoa farmers, " Mr. Shapiro said.
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He said he needs more money from his cocoa crop to help feed his family.
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Unless things change, he said, he'll pull out his cocoa trees and grow something else.
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The future of the cocoa farming profession would be threatened if productivity remained at current levels, Mr. Shapiro said.
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Mars has said that an extra one million metric tons, or 1.1 million short tons, of cocoa will be needed to satisfy global demand by 2020 if no serious efforts are put in place to increase productivity in nations such as Ivory Coast, where farmers are already turning to alternative crops such as rubber or abandoning their small holdings altogether.
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