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  Ghana Cocoa Story Ghana is the second largest producer of cocoa on international level. Ghana chocolate cocoa beans are the benchmark in terms of quality in international market. Over 90% of Ghana’s cocoa is grown in small farms of 5 to 15 hectares. The main cocoa growing areas are Volta, Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, Eastern, Western and Central regions of Ghana. Ghana exports most of its cocoa to Europe and North America, where it is processed and turned into chocolate. There are big bucks are in chocolate.Ghana is trapped in atrade relationship with Europe and struggling to process the chocolate itself. Ghana makes very little of the industry's profit by selling raw cocoa.The chocolate compaines play in billions of dollars, but cocoa farmers are struggling to make a living income.  Ghana Farmers aren’t benefitted from World’s Billion Dollars Ghana Chocolate industry. In 2019, global chocolate industry was valued at 130 billion US Dollars. But Ghana farmers are not much benefi...

  Consciousness as an unsolved mystery.  There are two great mysteries that have captivated the human imaginations for thousands of years. First of this is why the universe exist at all? And second one is why conscious minds exist to perceive it. Despite thousands of years of analysis, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists on this topic, consciousness is confusing and controversial.  This topic is not restricted to any one field or subject but it is universal and is being discussed in Philosophy, Quantum physics, Neuroscience and Psychology. All of them have different idea of consciousness. How dictionary defines the word consciousness? Basically, we define consciousness as sentience in dictionary which is capacity to feel, perceive or experiment subjectively. We are the living beings with individual tastes, feelings, passions, thoughts and perceptions. But do animals and other living things have the same level of consciousness?   Remember ...

Did You know About Social Animals or that Animals have Social Life too? Many species of insects and most vertebrates show a variety of hostile or friendly group behavioural activities associated with numbers of individuals living together. This is known as Social Behaviour of Social Animals. The cooperation achieved as a result of social behaviour has adaptive significance. It increases the efficiency and effectiveness of the species of social animals over that of other species. So it sounds amazing . Now these behaviour may include: 1-Division of labour 2-Team work 3-Defense 4-Search of food duties Silverback Gorilla Hostile and Helpful behaviours of Social Animals: In bees hives, hostile interaction is seen among the worker bees. Other worker bees kill the Old worker bee if she is unable to perform its duties in hives. Helpful interaction is also found among these bees as different bees have specific duties to perform over all the functions of hives. 1- Worker bees collect nectar ...