Turning Chocolate into Gold
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Cocoa farmers in West Sulawesi had to abandon their plantations because of low yields caused by pests and mismanagement. But sustainable agriculture training has improved the region's cocoa production.
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MANGNGOY spends most of his retirement days on his two-hectare cocoa plantation. Each day, the 71-year-old tends to around 1,000 cocoa trees in the Guliling village, West Sulawesi. He began planting cocoa in the 1980s, when the fruit became popular in the region, turning Sulawesi into one of Indonesia's cocoa centers. At the time, he also worked as a teacher at one of the schools in his village. Mangngoy said he had good yields after planting 700
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