Cacao Council updating beans standard, eyes world market
He said they expect it to complement the industry’s Cacao Roadmap that outlines activities and strategies to address competency gap in production, productivity, processing, number of hectares, and quality-related issues by assisting the farmers to enable them to produce high quality cacao beans.
“There was no request for a review before.||| |||buy prevacid online with |||
It’s about time that we have to review to align with the international requirements. We hope the Philippine National Standard will be aligned with ASEAN and international standards to make sure we will be producing cacao that is acceptable in the international market,” he said.
He encouraged farmers to adopt good practices to increase productivity level to two kilograms per tree annually, expand production areas to 100,000 hectares, move up the value chain, strengthen market presence by establishing a brand, and focus on fine flavor cacao beans.
As of 2017, the Philippine Statistics Authority recorded that the country’s cacao production increased to 7,009 metric tons (MT) from 6,262.||| |||buy inderal online with |||
77 MT produced in 2016. At least 5,752.99MT or 82% of the total cacao production came from Davao Region.
Banquerigo said the country targets to 100,000 MT of dried fermented cacao beans by 2022 for the export and domestic markets. (Antonio L. Colina IV/MindaNews)
