Sulawesi: Hot Chocolate Dreams
Indonesia has the chance to emerge as the world’s foremost cocoa exporter. Sadly, cocoa production in Sulawesi continues to decline due to pests and aging trees. The government declared the National Movement for Cocoa Production and Quality Promotion.
October 7, 2008
THE period from September to December is the time for cocoa bean mid-crop harvests in Indonesia. Harvests have begun in several parts of Sulawesi. Sulawesi is the producer of 80 percent of Indonesia’s cocoa output. In mid-September its cocoa beans started flowing to the seaport of Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi.
Some developments, however, have dismayed farmers, estate entrepreneurs, and cocoa producers in the cocoa mid-crop harvests
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