The Chocolate Farmer

Name: The Chocolate Farmer
Released: 2011-05-05

7.020111h 10mDocumentary

"All the knowledge that they teach us, we cannot eat it."

Overview

For ancient Mayans, cocoa was as good as gold. For subsistence farmer Eladio Pop, his cocoa crops are the only riches he has to support his wife and 15 children. As he wields his machete with ease, slicing a path to his cocoa trees, the small jungle plot he cultivates in southern Belize remains pris...