Cocoa is a type of plant that is very much found in the tropics, especially in our country Indonesia, This plant has a derivative product in the form of cocoa beans which will later be turned into delicious chocolate that can be enjoyed by all people everywhere.
Cocoa is widely cultivated in our place,Usually cultivated in high places and not easily accessible by floods,Incidentally, in my place, I plant this cocoa behind my house,This is because the land is very suitable for this type of plant and easy for me to control from diseases and pests.
Because we plant this cocoa is not very large, so we always harvest not too much,usually we harvest once a week and put together in sacks so that later it is easy to peel and dry in the sun,In the process of harvesting cocoa pods, I usually get help from my parents and other family members.
The cocoa pods that we harvest are immediately peeled to dry in the sun, This plant has seeds that are rather soft but have a lot of moisture content, eating this cocoa bean needs to be dried in the sun by turning it back and forth to quickly get to the dry.
This is the skin waste from cocoa that we deliberately collect and then use it as compost which later will be used again for fertilizing the cocoa trees, here we have the principle not to always use chemical fertilizers, but here always use fertilizers from animals or plants.
For those of you who like chocolate, maybe you need to know that our cocoa prices here are very cheap when we compare it after it becomes chocolate products, especially chocolate from Belgium and Italy.
I really hope that our cocoa costs more and this affects our income and also improves our standard of living.
