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Tanjung Rejo, Indonesia (AP) – The loud sounds of a chain are collected around a tree filled with red seed pods, as a small farmer group through the forest. With a slow shot, a cut-down button hit the ground.
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“Now it will help the tree to grow new fruit” Farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile.
For thousands of cocoaries, products and other organizations like Santoso, thousands of cocoaries, products and other organizations work with jobs and other organizations to protect the level of cocoa prices to record levels.
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Cocoa trees are a high maintenance: only in the equator, it requires the exact combination of continuous temperature, humidity and sunlight. It takes five years to start producing seeds in the cocoa used to prepare chocolate and other elegant foods.
Climate change increases risks for farmers: hot air productivity and longer rainy seasons cause fungi and fatal pests. The increasingly unexpected air samples made farmers hard to deal with these difficulties.
Thus, farmers reach other products, but in addition to the reduce cocoa supply and prices, in 2024, prices reached about three times, increase chocolate costs and reach a leading ton of cocoa, which grows in laboratories.
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations is the third largest manufacturer, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, farmers are united with businesses and non-governmental organizations to develop better growing practices.
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Sitting in the shadow of forestry in Southern Sumatra, 3 miles (5 kilometers), Sumatran Tigers and Rhinos Rhinoso, Farmer Santoso Indonesia Chocolate Makeri Krakakoa.
After starting with the company in 2016, using experiments that help the cocoa tree flourish, to grow and prevent the spread of the disease, the elderly begins to use new branches on new branches. Uses organic fertilizers and adopts agroforestry techniques, combine other crops and trees, other crops and trees such as bananas, dragon, coffee and pepper to spend other sources of income and other income sources.
“He was not very successful before meeting Krakakoa,” Santoso said. “But then we got a training … things are better.”
Krakakoa, Sabrina Mustopo, Sabrina Mustopo, prepared more than 1,000 cocoa farmers in Indonesia. The company also provides financial support.
Santoso and other farmers in Sumatra, the partnership, a cooperative, not outside the society, not to banks, but also to farmers who are paid to the cooperative, he said.
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Cocoa farmers needing larger loans from government-owned banks also benefit from partners with enterprises, because guaranteed buyer contracts can provide the necessary collateral to receive approved loans.
Hari, dozens of other enterprises, governmental and non-governmental organizations and cooperatives to cope with thousands of beneficiary changes and coocerators are working to cope with climate change. He pointed out to cooperation between the National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia and broadcast a new version of Cocao, which produces more pods per tree.
There are still problems, said Rajendra Aryal, Director of FAO. Cocoa farming sees less like a profitable business and sows other products such as palm oil instead. And many small-scale farmers still can’t get credit.
However, Aryal, farmers and others said he hoped the cooperation continues.
“If we can look at the main issues they face (farmers) … I think this sector can really be very attractive for the farmers,” he said. “Despite the difficulties in Indonesia, I see that there are opportunities.”
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