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Cargill Indonesia aims to raise cocoa production to 56,000 tons

PT Cargill Indonesia, the local unit of the United States commodities giant, aims to increase cocoa production to 56,000 tons per year, 80 percent of its estimated total annual production capacity of 70,000 metric tons.  

News Desk (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Fri, June 23, 2017

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T Cargill Indonesia, the local unit of the United States commodities giant, aims to increase cocoa production to 56,000 tons per year, 80 percent of its estimated total annual production capacity of 70,000 metric tons.

Cargill Indonesia, which has a cocoa-processing plant in Gresik, East Java, said its cocoa production in 2016 had reached 42,000 tons, 60 percent of its total production capacity.

“Currently, there are few constraints due to the declining supply of raw materials in the country,” Cargill Indonesia corporate affairs director Arief Susanto said recently as quoted by Kontan.

In order to anticipate the limited supply of raw materials, the company has partnered with farmers by providing them with training.

To handle the shortage, Cargill is importing 30 percent of the required raw materials for producing cocoa. However, domestic cocoa beans will still account for 70 percent of the raw materials used for production.

The processed cocoa products have been mostly exported rather than sold in the country because of the high demand overseas. (win/dmr)

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