Meet our Proud Plantacion de Sikwate Cacao Producers Association, Inc. Member from Japan… Tachibana International Ptd Ltd. Represented by Mr. Wataru Ikuta and Ms. Kinu Tsuruta.
“We want to pay a higher price to the farmers,” said Wataru. He said this came amid growing interest in sustainable products from Japanese consumers.
Tachibana International Ptd Ltd is paying above the market price of bulk cocoa (around $2,500 per metric ton) for well-fermented cocoa. It will pay as much as $10,000 per MT for cocoa from a fermentation center and around $200 above the market price for cocoa that has been well-fermented by farmers.
The firm has one cocoa fermentation center in Ghana and hopes to expand to other districts in the country. It is also conducting cocoa fermentation center trials in Tanzania and Vietnam and a post-harvest project in Sierra Leone.
For Tanzania and Sierra Leone, Tachibana plans a ‘Chocolate Fund’ to reward farmers, whereby it will collect funds from customers and pay in dividends to farmers. This was a concept pioneered by Puratos Grand-Place.
Tachibana has 25 employees. It began to export in 2010 and a third of its revenues now come in international markets. The firm has offices in Osaka, Tokyo, Singapore, Amsterdam and Accra.
Read more at http://mobile.confectionerynews.com/Markets/Creating-Japan-s-origin-chocolate-sector-Tachibana
I guess, these is how much your Filipino Aromatico™ beans will cost. So, I’ll suggest you better plant yours now and be one of us.
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