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A 16 page paper establishing a Ghana-US supply chain. A large trading house seeks to construct a supply chain by which it will import cocoa beans from Ghana to a factory near Chicago. The sale of cocoa is controlled by Ghana's "Cocobod, the Government agency with responsibility for the export and international sales of all the cocoa beans from Ghana," and all sales necessarily will involve this government agency. Of further consideration is that, as an agricultural product, cocoa is a seasonal commodity and is available only twice a year. Further complicating the issue is that although Ghana produces 70 percent of the world's supply of cocoa, Ghanaian cocoa farmers have been experiencing declining yields in recent years. Early ordering is crucial, as is careful port selection. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
Page Count:
16 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSsupChnGhaCoc.rtf
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A large trading house seeks to construct a supply chain by which it will import cocoa beans from Ghana to a factory near Chicago. The sale of
cocoa is controlled by Ghanas "Cocobod, the Government agency with responsibility for the export and international sales of all the cocoa beans from Ghana" (Bean to Bar, n.d.), and all
sales necessarily will involve this government agency. Of further consideration is that, as an agricultural product, cocoa is a seasonal commodity and is
available only twice a year. Further complicating the issue is that although Ghana produces 70 percent of the worlds supply of cocoa, Ghanaian cocoa farmers have been experiencing declining
yields in recent years. Early ordering is crucial. Ghanas Cocoa Industry Ghana is no longer the worlds leading producer of cocoa, a
result of many small farmers abandoning the crop in the 1970s in the face of excruciatingly low world prices at the time. Ghanas neighbor Cote dIvoire currently holds the
distinction of world production leader, but Ghana retains the leading position in quality (Bean to Bar, n.d.). Cocoa is a New World product
brought back by Christopher Columbus. The cocoa plant is a tree "indigenous to the Amazon Basin and tropical areas of South and Central America" (Bean to Bar, n.d.) and
is known to have been cultivated more than 2000 years ago. Cocoa was a sacred plant of the Mayans and its beans have been used as currency. The
Day Chocolate Company tells visitors to its website that the price of a slave in ancient times was 100 cocoa beans; the price of a rabbit was four beans (Bean
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