How to Increase the Income of Cocoa Farmers through the Development of Cocoa Products?
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- 10.2991/piceeba-18.2018.31How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- value added production, product, income
- Abstract
Cocoa is one of plantation commodities main West Sumatera also play a role important as producer regional foreign exchange, and as provision of employment opportunities and source of income for farmers .Demand cocoa the world is still very high which annually increased .Cooperatives cocoa ‘Mandiri Prima’ is one of the most potential cooperative in Lima Puluh Kota district, Tanah Datar regency. Cooperatives cocoa “Mandiri Prima” has a member of as many as 46 one who reliable in administer the estate cocoa , only processing cocoa beans was not perfect so processing cocoa beans feasible for marketing. A method of activities will be implemented with group discussions and understanding fodder for participants a member of farmers cocoa. The discussion groups and for the delivery of material, it turns out its participants stated that they failed to in implementing fermentation cocoa beans becoming brown quality. It was because they did not understand technically the process. It becomes one of the problems for the government to increase production cocoa in the area. For that we need to review the how product development cocoa beans in regency land these flat in order to increase farm incomes cocoa and can increase the value of value-added production.
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TY - CONF AU - Mike Triani AU - Marta Dinata AU - Andria Ningsih PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - How to Increase the Income of Cocoa Farmers through the Development of Cocoa Products? BT - Proceedings of the First Padang International Conference On Economics Education, Economics, Business and Management, Accounting and Entrepreneurship (PICEEBA 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 222 EP - 226 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/piceeba-18.2018.31 DO - 10.2991/piceeba-18.2018.31 ID - Triani2018/07 ER -