Cocoa Business Opportunities

Media required are as follows:

Growing media:
1. Fertile land
2. Organic Fertilizer or compost
3. Husk (bran)

Making Media
The way of making simple media is a blend of at least three elements of media on the comparison of soil: manure: husk = 1: 1: 0.3. Media on until evenly mixed, after the new media ready planted seedlings have been growing institution.

Seedlings grow their agencies were put under and put into the media. Seed surface flattened. Normal seedlings will grow one day, first week on average 2.5 mm.

Additional Media
Furthermore, the media is placed in the sun protection of approximately 20%. In this case the commonly used palm leaves, leaves of sugarcane, or other materials of similar nature with the materials mentioned above, in accordance with the conditions and potentials of each area.







Selection of seedlings of cocoa beans or a choice Sowing seeds of cacao during the five months to be ready to move into the field (garden).

Time period
0-7 days: the seeds germinate, and inserted into the media
8-14 days: growing leaves 2-4 pieces
1 month: stems, and leaves the full already as high as 25 cm
5 months: ready to move to the field, after a 0.5 cm diameter rod


Watering techniques
In terms of watering techniques are often performed with an instrument called yells (flush hopper sprayer Plosokerep Dusun community designation, Bunder, Patuk, Gunungkidul).
With a range of time
0-1 weeks: 1 times daily
second week: 2 days
next: adjusted a condition



If the age of one year, can already be applied improvement techniques of farming in a way:

1. Bud grafting or connect
Seedlings that have been through grafting that grew to normal after 2 years of age have started to bear fruit but are not yet started terokulasi advantage of this fruit seedlings oculated than those not.

2. Of Technology side graft
Selling Plants (parent according to the original) occasionally would be similar to its mother from the garden. Kadangpula not be in accordance with their parent or decreased clones, so it will not fit with the parent or fruit.

Seedlings with the characteristics of trees flourished, with heavy interest but will not be a fruit or fall out. Such things should be done side graft technique by taking seeds or "entress shoots" of desired tree (heavy fruiting). With the technique of how to connect the side or placing the tree will produce desirable. And the process of production or harvesting can be encouraged and further enhanced instead of using plants that grow normally.

Maintenance
Cacao tree is a tropical plant that requires indirect sunlight. Thus the growth needs of plants such shady lamtoro, petai, coconut, and others. The things that should not be overlooked is pruning.

Pruning
In terms of pruning that needs to be done is cutting the leaves from the twigs and branches of cacao. The goal is that sunlight can enter through to the surface of land in cocoa plantations.

In this pruning technique or some kind of way that need attention:
1. Trimming form
Pruning of cocoa trees are usually pruned twigs and leaves to resemble an inverted umbrella, so that each branch will bear fruit
2. Light pruning
Pruning is done at any time as needed. This means that the twigs that grow in bearing fruit is cut so that the ovary can be occupied.

How to Harvest
Tree that has fruit from flower to become more or less ripe fruit takes 105 days. At the time the fruit is ripe fruit already marked with reddish yellow. The correct way to harvest is the fruit is picked from the cocoa tree should not damage the bearing fruit, because the bearing fruit that will be occupied next. Thus in the process of pruning should be wearing a sharp tools or scissors, can also use a sickle, or a sharp knife is essential tidakmerusah bearing fruit. Techniques to cut fruit from its stem, which stem from the fruit left by approximately 30%.

Fruit that is picked then split and separate the seeds taken from the skin and heart. Furthermore, seeds were separated from liver and skin. Then the beans ferment curing through poses.














The fermentation process
Actions should be taken in the fermentation process are: seeds that have been separated from the skin and the heart was inserted into the fermentation boxes for approximately five days. To produce good fruit fermentation, during a curing fruit fermentation shuffled back inside the box once every two days.

Then, as the water content according to be drying process. Usually to be wanted as the water content is 10% (at the desired levels of the factory). Fine cocoa beans and fermented bean 90-100 average in 1 ounce.

Drying process
drying process was conducted in drying floor that has been available specifically for drying cocoa beans. Performed above the hot sun drying. Generally used drying floor roof of glass fiber layer. So that direct sunlight can get to permuka'an drying floor and protected from the fall of rain which can damage cocoa seed fermented.

The price of dry cocoa beans that have been fermented from the mediator to farmers ranging up to Rp 14.000,00 till 20.000 and could change at any time depending on the value of the rupiah against foreign currencies. Another factor affecting the price change is the need of the world community will be cocoa as a raw material a variety of foods and cosmetics industries up and down. Imagine today's world cocoa demand reached 3.9 million per year and so far met only 3.88 million per year and the Indonesian cocoa production at this new range from 400000-500000 tons per year.

This has not been widely known by the Indonesian community that cocoa production is one of the very profitable investment in Indonesian. Both from the farmers and exporters. Whether the income of farmers as well as opportunities for exporters to gain lucrative profits.

For more information and to better know the condition directly in the field (on the farm can directly visit Ngudi Raharjo Farmers Group II, which was in the hamlet Plosokerep Bunder Patuk Gunungkidul District. Over there you can directly obtain information from the nursery to finish processing the seeds into cocoa beans are ready to sell.

Tips to get your Entrepreneurship off and running

One of the best of the small business associations is the University of Central Arkansas Small Business Advancement National Center (SBANC.)

While the ideal way of starting a small business would be to free yourself up from every other venture, problem, time consuming effort and obligation and throw yourself into starting a small business every waking moment, this isn't an ideal world. Few of us can afford the luxury of setting everything else aside to devote all our time and efforts, as well as capital - to starting a small business.

Some of us have the itch to become an entrepreneur but have to "keep our day jobs" while we give this starting a small business idea a go. It may well be, in fact, that starting a small business part time is the most common entrepreneurial process.

Part of succeeding at starting a small business if you have to do so part time is to know your schedule and your time limitations and choose a business concept that you enjoy, have some training or expertise in and can be accomplished around your work schedule. The other alternative is to change your work schedule either with your current employer or choose an alternative employer. Starting a small business takes effort and focus as well as time.

It may be that your current job is not only time consuming but also the type of work that requires a great deal of energy, a great deal of concentration, a very regimented schedule and perhaps the responsibility that tends to have you taking your work home with you either actually or mentally. This sort of work style doesn't lend itself well to starting a small business part time.

Let's look at an example of a journalist who has a successful writing and editing business from her home office. When she decided she was interested in starting a small business she had been working for many years in newspaper management. Her executive responsibilities required 70 and 80 hour workweeks and even then she took work home.

After many years of this she began to think more and more about her dream of starting a small writing business. It called to her more and more urgently. But how was she to even think of starting a small business when she had little time, energy or focus left in her busy work week? Besides, she had to work to keep the roof over her head.

What she did to determine if starting a small business was even possible, was to sit down and write out a budget, deciding where she could eliminate some non-essential expenses in her life, and what she absolutely had to have to live on. She then looked for, and found, a job that not only brought in enough money to live on but freed up a lot of her daytime work week hours as well as her mental focus. She took a customer service job in a call center.

Starting a small business was going to be possible with this job where it had not been with her newspaper career for a number of reasons. It required considerably less mental acumen, it didn't require that she take her work home with her, it was easy, the hours were flexible (she worked 3pm-midnight Thursday through Sunday) and the dress code was highly casual. She could work all day starting her small business and then don her jeans and go into the call center in the evening. Now she's quit that call center job and her dream of starting a small business has been fulfilled. Her business is thriving and she works at it full time.

You will find links to other small business associations from the SBANC site. These small business associations include the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) offering one on one counseling in person or online, the Small Business Administration (SBA) and its Small Business Development Centers which provide a ton of small business assistance including mentoring, training, publications, tapes, workshops and financing, Allied Academies - a worldwide research and training group, the Small Business Institute which provides entrepreneurial teaching and training, and the Federation of Business Disciplines, a group of educators devoted to small business teaching conferences.

Running a Successful Bed and Breakfast Venture

The only true business that can be run from your 'home' is a Bed and Breakfast Venture.

Taking a decision to run a Bed and Breakfast establishment involves much careful consideration, planning and financial calculations. Not only will it take up a large part of your life - although with careful planning this can be kept under control, but such a venture also holds out the prospect of making a very good income for you.

Location, location, location. This is the prime consideration in any business venture, more so in the Bed and Breakfast industry. A location can vary enormously from being right in the heart of a busy town to being a remote farmhouse. There is a demand for both.

Your location will probably define the type of clientele you will attract and the level of your operation, the amount you may charge per room, the number of bookings you are likely to receive etc.

Planning means - do you already have a house that can be easily adapted to cope with a business of this nature? Perhaps you have an extension, barn, old stables even an ex-granny flat or other buildings that would lend themselves to conversion. Into this consideration will creep financial calculations. The cost of conversion etc. If these are extensive, it may be that during the life of the operation of your business you may well not fully recoup these costs. Do not despair, when you eventually decide to sell and retire on your profits, you will be able to take the cost of conversion, plus the fact that you have a flourishing, going concern for sale, which will inflate the sale price considerably.

If you are in or near to a busy town then you will be more likely to attract business people and workers. Here it is necessary to think carefully - Business people and manual workers to not mix well, requiring different standards of accommodation, working different hours and have greatly differing habits and life-styles.

If your property is in a remote location it has advantages. You can try to attract people who are seeking to 'withdraw' from the rat race for a few days. If you are within striking distance of a local natural attraction, i.e., a well-known walk skiing country etc. then holiday makers are more likely to be your main source of income. One set of guests may be quiet and contemplative whilst the others will probably be enjoying their adventure in the great outdoors.

A remote property it is more likely to be of the farm-house type. Here you can capitalise on this fact. Do not go overboard in modernising your furnishings, people will expect to see the rural effect, but not worn out and dejected! However quaint the farmhouse effect may be, guests will still expect the wonders of civilisation to be readily available, i.e., good bathing and toilet facilities. So whether a 'bucket and chuck it' at the end of the garden would be acceptable in the 21st century is a debatable point!

To all of these different types of accommodation and the types of guests you are likely to attract, you can add people who have relatives nearby who cannot accommodate them when they come to visit, wedding guests, people who are house-hunting in the area, etc. Also consider the possibility that you may attract a totally different clientele during the week to that which you attract at the weekend.

You will see from the above four categories that you will need to reflect and consider which course of business you will be operating.

Returning to the subject of careful consideration this means assessing whether you have the right personality to cope with such a venture. It is essential for you to be of an out-going disposition, that you like people and are prepared to help them when necessary. You will also need to be able to 'stand-up' to the odd awkward customer, and will need the ability to do so in a polite, firm, fair and friendly manner. No fisticuffs at dawn! Remember a smile works wonders - but not a smirk.

For all of these variations on which type of operation you will eventually be operating, you will also need to be a good cook, keep a clean and tidy establishment and not resent people living in 'your' house.

This last point can be overcome if you have an out-building that can be converted into accommodation, and then quite frankly, 50% of your problems should disappear. You will be in your own domain and the guests will have theirs. You will not be constantly at their beck and call and will have more time on your own to relax. You will not constantly have to wear your 'Bed and Breakfast' smile. Your door will be locked and your time is your own.

However, if you do not have this extra building, do not despair. All that is needed is for you to make sure that your own accommodation really is yours. Can you arrange it so that you have your own shower-room, your own sitting room, or at least some part of the house that you can use for your own relaxation?

A full description on 'Running a Successful Bed and Breakfast Venture' can be found at www.bumbles-ebooks.com where you will also find an additional four part course on this subject.

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