Cocoa

Cocoa Cultivatiom

Agriculture Technology

Cocoa is one of the plants have great opportunities in the agribusiness sector. therefore these plantations preferred by many farmers. But to attempt to get maximum results, there are several ways on breeding techniques and treatment of the cocoa plant. The following is a way for the planting and maintenance of cocoa.

Seeding process. Cocoa beans to be selected as the seed can be taken from the middle part of healthy fruit and mature trees from seed plants that are old enough. Before germinated, seeds should be cleaned first of flesh with ash.

There are some additional you need to know:

Cocoa beans do not have a period of rest or dormancy, and therefore should be germinated or sowing.

Germination using jute sacks indoors, watering three times sehari.Sebaiknya prepare a polybag with size 30 x 20 cm (0.8 cm thick poly bag) and place for breeding.

Mix the soil with manure (1: 1), and enter it in polybag for breeding.

Next is planting seeds. When the seeds are planted cacao, shade trees must have grown well and shade while about 1 year old. Planting cocoa with intercropping system requires no shade, for example, can be done intercropping with coconut trees.

Seedlings are transferred to the media which had been prepared in accordance with the type, for types Noble cocoa seedlings can be planted after the age of 6 months old, and Cocoa lindak aged about 4-5 months. The time of transfer would that cacao seeds not forming young leaves or flushing.

For watering can be done 2 times a day, on the morning and afternoon as much as 2 to 5 liters per tree. Manure pit can be created around the plant (with dikoak). Fertilizer was included in the planting hole, then fertilizer is closed again.

Pruning tree branches aimed at the establishment of a balanced and vegetative growth is good and healthy. Shade trees also done trimming branches and leaves that grow tall and good.