Cacao
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2020
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Direktorat Jenderal Perkebunan
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Cacao is one of the most traded commodities globally. Cacao is not only famous for its unique flavour and aroma that dazzle its consumers, but also contains compounds that have soothing effects and can provide various health benefits to whoever consume it. These facts lead to increasing international and domestic market growth, which created opportunities for all involved actors in Indonesia's cacao supply chain, especially the growers as the main actor. However, this situation has also posed challanges for cacao growers to improve the quality, quantity and continuity of their product to meet the ever-growing market demands. Unfortunately, the gap of value distribution among the supply chain actors are still too large, making the industries to keep growing, while leaving the growers to passively accept their stagnancy, which creates inequality that hinders their growth. This book provides information about the general situation of cacao agribusiness system in Indonesia. It shows that there are much complexities behind every bar or cup of chocolate that we enjoyed. We hope that this book can inform the society to be more aware of the root of our delicacies.