No more chocolate!

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Experts are concerned we could be without our favourite sweet treats by 2050.

Stash up on your diary milk blocks and scorched almonds because experts are worried chocolate could run out in the next 30 years thanks to a warming climate.

The Sun reports cocoa beans, which grown on cacao trees only thrive in humid rainforest-like conditions close the equator.

But the changing climate will make it harder for crops to grow because a change will suck moisture from the soil and make it impossible to produce a good crop in many regions around the world.

The Ivory Coast and Ghana, both in West Africa, produce half the world's cocoa but a forecast predicated to hit the region could see rising temperatures and droughts.

Doug Hawkins, of Hardman Agribusiness, said fertilisers and pesticides were crucial to yield a good cocoa crop, but most cocoa is produced by poor families you can't afford these things. 

"More than 90 per cent of the global cocoa crop is produced by smallholders on subsistence farms with unimproved planting material.

"All the indicators are that we could be looking at a chocolate deficit of 100,000 tons a year in the next few years," he said.

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