Word: accra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ACCRA, Gold Coast, W. Africa-Recently, the village of Wekumagber, about 20 miles from Great Ningo, was stirred...
Result of this lassitude was that after more or less keeping pace with consumption from 1933 through 1935 the production of cocoa in West Africa began to fall off relatively last year. On the British Gold Coast, whose Accra beans make up the largest proportion of the crop, an early season drought deprived trees of needed moisture. Cocoa figures are notoriously hard to get but when harvest time came on the Gold Coast in October, crop estimate for that area dropped from 260,000 ton to 235,000. In Brazil, whose bahia crop is the world's second largest...
...tossed into heaps by the cutters, who return to slice them open, scoop out the cocoa beans and pile them in boxes or wrappings of plantain leaf for a week's fermentation. They are then dried brown, either in kilns or in the sun, and sacked. Many an Accra tribesman has toted two 60 lb. "headloads" of cocoa beans on a day's trek from plantation to trading post. In New York and London last week cocoa tipsters were freely predicting that when the last beans are sold this spring, cocoa stocks will still be low, cocoa prices...