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.