It’s no secret that cacao is a crop full of potential. It can be made into cocoa powder, butter, liquor, and, of course, chocolate.
Plantacion de Sikwate CEO Mel Santos with Bohol Chapter Members toured the Sagbayan, Bohol Farm.
However, the Filipino Aromatico hasn’t even “existed” for very long. The Filipino Aromatico was purposefully sought by the Plantacion de Sikwate, or PDS, as they roamed the Philippines for heirloom cacao in 2016.During that time, PDS founder and current CEO, Mel Santos, was set on furthering the Philippines’ potential to be an exporter of cacao products. “I was thinking, our produced beans were going, particularly, to Malaysia. There were those who bought beans from us,” Santos said in Tagalog.
In 18 months, cacao trees start bearing pods. It takes 4 years for the tree to be grown halfway to maturity and 5-6 years for it to be considered fully grown. Santos admitted that when they first announced the Filipino Aromatico, they received a lot of backlash from social media. He said that the stereotype of cacao trees being hard to grow is because of the lack of technology before. Since cacao trees are not cared for properly, they don’t produce the best crops so farmers simply ax the cacao tree down.
Different countries approach PDS to try the chocolates from Filipino Aromatico. Santos said there is interest from Japan, Brunei, Germany, the United States of America and more.
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