Heirloom Cacao Grafted Mother Plants 1/23/17

 

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The less than one year old heirloom cacao grafted mother plants already started to practice producing cherrels. <Wait… cherrels? Mr. Cacao, please enlighten us…>

cherrels are immature pods of 10cm length

These mother plants are under the care of Balrly Valenzuela and his team. As part of the PDS team, we also train them to become plant propagators. Personally,  I am glad to see high survival in their first try in grafting.  It is now a question of developing their speed thru experience. ?

From the bottom of my cup of sikwate, good job Team PDS Atipuluan! – Chris

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Board Meeting: 1/22/17 (Cebu)

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The PDS Board Members gathered at the BIG Hotel in Cebu City.

It was a business meeting to  update achievements from the funding program with Brownseeds Pte. Ltd. as well as plotting of schedules for the PDS Cacao Techno-Forums.

For office-related updates, Membership status were discussed as well as the upcoming General Assembly of all BOD and National officers.

The date will coincide with the 3rd year founding anniversary of the cacao producers association.

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BAL209: Studies on Commercial Cacao Plantation with improved Yield and Clonal Varieties

From the Planter’s Yesteryear’s Files FYI:

Research & studies of commercial cacao plantation on improving yield and upgrading clonal varieties with presentations to professional planters for scrutiny and most importantly field verification based on years of actual field trials results… BAL209 is one of the results of this trials results which give benefit to all cacao growers. ** Pardon the font guys, see we can’t do much with the typewriter’s those years way back (yep, way, way, way back that is)

 

Specialized Market Needs: Fermentation Techniques for Post-Harvesting Process

Planter’s Yesteryear’s References FYI:

Fermentation Techniques developed by commercial plantation for post-harvesting process focusing to specialized market requirements. References which can be learned and / or adapted to get high-quality FCDBs to process big volume cacao wet beans collected from cacao farmers’ clusters into a centralized post-harvesting facility, reducing cost and improving efficiency to provide competitive quality FCDBs into both local and export markets

improper manuring program can result in reduced yield due to high wilting rate of cherelles and smaller pod size, hence small bean size and low yield. Improper manuring program can result in reduced yield due to high wilting rate of cherelles and smaller pod size, hence small bean size and low yield.  With the present low prices for cocoa beans, it is even more important that one should closely every stage along the line from planting to processing to maximise the recovery, ie minimum wastage and at the same time to produce beans of high quality

harvesting interval 7-10 days or 3-4 rounds a month…

five days fermentation with one turn on the third day….procedure recommended by buyers.

moisture of beans just before shipment should not exceed 7.5%

recovery of DFCB at 110/100gm beans is 90%.

BPI-NSIC Cacao Scion Trees Tagging of Peregreen Cacao Nursery

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image image  image image image image image imageBPI-NSIC Cacao Scion Trees Tagging of PEREGREEN Cacao Nursery, a PDS Affiliated Farm in Mintal, Davao City.

Mr. Mel G. Santos (MGS), PDS BOD Mario Peregrino, PDS Strategic Adviser for Mindanao Mr. Etol Laurente and BPI-NSIC Team Leader Julia J. Cariño gathered for the Cacao Scion tree tagging ceremony.