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INDONESIA TO PRODUCE ONE MILLION TONS OF COCOA IN 2013
Jakarta, Aug 11 (ANTARA) - The Agriculture Ministry, through a national movement to increase the production and quality of cocoa launched by Vice President Yusuf Kalla, has projected cocoa production in 2013 at one million tons.
Plantations Director General of the Agriculture Ministry Achmad Mangga Barani said here on Monday cocoa production could be boosted by rehabilitating pest-ridden cocoa crops in 450 hectares in Sulawesi.
"In 2011, rehabilitation is scheduled for completion, and hopefully in 2013 the plantation will produce one million tons of cocoa," he said.
According to him, of the 450,000 hectares of cocoa crops in Sulawesi, 70,000 ha had been seriously attacked by pests and disease, 235,000 ha half-damaged and 145,000 ha slightly damaged.
This, he added, had made Sulawesi the biggest contributor (65.2 percent) of the national cocoa production, which had dropped by 30 percent.
The cocoa plantation had reached 912,000 hectares, or 63 percent of the national cocoa plantations of 1.4 million ha, while Sulawesi's cocoa production reached 508,135 tons per year and 779,186 tons on a national scale.
Plantations Director General of the Agriculture Ministry Achmad Mangga Barani said here on Monday cocoa production could be boosted by rehabilitating pest-ridden cocoa crops in 450 hectares in Sulawesi.
"In 2011, rehabilitation is scheduled for completion, and hopefully in 2013 the plantation will produce one million tons of cocoa," he said.
According to him, of the 450,000 hectares of cocoa crops in Sulawesi, 70,000 ha had been seriously attacked by pests and disease, 235,000 ha half-damaged and 145,000 ha slightly damaged.
This, he added, had made Sulawesi the biggest contributor (65.2 percent) of the national cocoa production, which had dropped by 30 percent.
The cocoa plantation had reached 912,000 hectares, or 63 percent of the national cocoa plantations of 1.4 million ha, while Sulawesi's cocoa production reached 508,135 tons per year and 779,186 tons on a national scale.
