CAMPCO – Central Areca-nut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Co-operative Limited 23/04/2019 – Posted in: Daily News

Central Areca-nut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Co-operative Limited

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CAMPCO reduced the procurement price of wet cocoa beans when it buys the produce from farmers by Rs. 3 per kg. Also, the cooperative will soon install an advanced machine to increase the production of choco chips at its chocolate factory in Puttur.

The price will be slashed as the yield from wet beans to dry beans has dropped from about 32 % to 29 %. Usually, the yield from wet beans to dry beans drops when the beans are procured in rainy season due to high moisture content.

 

CAMPCO

The Central Areca-nut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Co-operative Limited or CAMPCO was found on 11 July 1973 at Mangalore. The organisation working on principles of co-operative was found to mitigate the sufferings of arecanut and cocoa growers in Indian states of Karnataka and Kerala. CAMPCO has now extended its services to other states of India like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, New Delhi, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Assam and Goa also. The CAMPCO has now become multi state co-operative under relevant Indian laws.

 

Cocoa bean

The cocoa bean is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted. Cocoa beans are the basis of chocolate, and Mesoamerican foods including tejate, a pre-Hispanic drink that also includes maize.

In India, cocoa is grown primarily as an intercrop in Andhra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, as the tree requires about 40-50 per cent shade. More than two-thirds of cocoa are grown in coconut groves and around a fifth with arecanut, with the rest in oil palm and rubber plantations. Prasad too cultivates cocoa as an intercrop on 19 acres, more than half of it with coconut.

Cocoa, a tropical crop native to parts of South and Central America, is now also grown in West Africa, where Ghana is second to the Ivory Coast in production, and southeast Asia, where Indonesia is the largest prodcuer. The tree starts yielding pods from its fifth year and is productive for 25-30 years.

 

The Directorate of Cashewnut & Cocoa Development (DCCD)

DCCD is a national agency primarily engaged in the overall development of Cashew and Cocoa in India.

 

Source: The Hindu