BBC Newsround｜巧克力从何而来？为何会涨价？

Where does chocolate come from and why is the cost of it going up? | Newsround
Some of you might have noticed the price of chocolate is going up in shops, but why is this happening? Here's Degraft with more. Mmm, sweet, sweet chocolate.
有些人可能已经注意到商店里巧克力的价格正在上涨，但为什么会出现这种情况呢？下面是 Degraft 提供的更多信息。嗯，甜甜的巧克力
However, right now we're being warned it could be going up in price. But why? Well, to understand, you need to know a little bit about how chocolate is made. Do you know what this is? This is a type of fruit called cocoa, and it's where all chocolate is from. You can eat the flesh inside and, well... It feels very, like, gooey. Yeah, suck in on it.
然而，现在我们被警告说它可能会涨价。但是为什么呢？要理解这一点，你需要了解一点巧克力的制作方法。你看这是什么？这是一种叫做可可的水果，所有的巧克力都是从这里来的。你可以吃里面的肉...感觉非常，像，黏糊糊的。是啊，吸进去吃。
Inside the fruit are beans, or seeds like these, that are farmed and left out to dry in the heat. They're then roasted, broken down and turned into a liquid which is then used to make chocolate all over the world. Cocoa is grown in many places around the world near the equator.
水果里面是豆子，或者像这样的种子，经过种植，放在外面在高温下干燥。然后，它们被烘烤，分解，变成液体，然后用来制造世界各地的巧克力。世界上许多靠近赤道的地方都种植可可。
However, Ghana and the Ivory Coast are two of the world's biggest cocoa farmers, producing a lot of the world's chocolate supply. But why could chocolate here in the UK start getting more expensive? Well, one of the reasons is a change in the climate in areas like Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Hotter and drier weather makes it more difficult to grow cocoa, so it means there's less of it.
然而，加纳和象牙海岸是世界上最大的两个可可种植国，生产了世界上大量的巧克力供应。但是为什么英国的巧克力开始变得越来越贵呢？其中一个原因是像加纳和象牙海岸这样的地区的气候变化。炎热干燥的天气使得种植可可变得更加困难，所以这意味着可可的数量减少了。
I was in Ghana for Newsround in 2022, and it's a worry one of the farmers raised with me back then. Because of climate change, farmers incur losses. They continue to tend to the crop, but yields are reduced. Another reason is due to a disease that's spreading on cocoa farms, which is causing the plant itself to rot. The more disease there is, the less cocoa there is. And the less cocoa there is, the more expensive it is, because it's worth more.
2022年，我在加纳参加Newsround的工作，这是当时一位农民和我一起提出的担忧。由于气候变化，农民遭受损失。他们继续照料作物，但产量有所下降。另一个原因是一种在可可农场传播的疾病，这种疾病导致可可本身腐烂。疾病越多，可可就越少。可可越少越贵，因为物以稀为贵。
Farms sell their cocoa to chocolate companies. If cocoa is expensive to buy from farms, it could mean the companies raise their prices when they sell their chocolate to our shops. It doesn't mean the farmers in places like Ghana are getting rich, even if the price goes up. Because they're providing less cocoa, they may not see any extra money. All these things have an impact on the price of chocolate, from the bean all the way to the bar.
农场将他们可可卖给巧克力公司。如果从农场购买可可很贵，这可能意味着公司在向我们的商店出售巧克力时会提高价格。即使价格上涨了，这并不意味着加纳等地的农民变得富裕了。因为他们提供的可可更少了，他们可能得不到任何额外的钱。所有这些都会影响巧克力的价格，从咖啡豆到巧克力棒。

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