After pruning and carefully cultivating, most species of cocoa trees will begin in the fifth year. If you give the best care, some trees even have a good harvest in the third and fourth years. Cocoa trees all year round (or pods), while harvests are usually seasonal. Since the cocoa tree is free to cross pollinate, pods form a variety of species, including Latin American species, alien species and Trinidad species.

 

It is no easy task to pick ripe cocoa pods. The cocoa tree is fragile and of a very shallow foundation, and workers can not take the risk of climbing up to pick up the pods on the branches.

 

The grower is equipped with a long, hand-shaped steel knife for the picking workers who work in the ground. The steel knife is a soft bark that is enough to cut and cut the highest pods without harming the cocoa tree. Carrying the big machete is used to pick the long pods that are long on the low branches.

 

The collector will work with the picker to collect the pods into the basket and onto the edge of the field. Where the pods are broken. If the method is appropriate, as long as waving one or two large machete can split pods wooden shell. An experienced crusher can split five hundred pods per hour.

Completion of the harvest requires patience, cocoa beans and we are familiar with the final product is still very different. Milky white cocoa beans are exposed to the air and soon become lavender or purple. At this point, they do not look like the chocolate made, smell and no familiar chocolate fragrance. If you want to start a business about cocoa beans,our company has cocoa beans butter grinding machine.