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Value adding through chocolate making By Vanessa P. Sanchez
BUTUAN CITY - Start small but dream big! This was the message of Marinus Heemskerk, Resource Speaker during the Chocolate Making Training conducted by the Caraga Cacao Industry Council in coordination with the Department of Agriculture (DA)-Caraga, Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA), Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Science and Technology and DA-Agricultural Training Institute (ATI). “Learn to crawl first before you Netherlands. He discussed the process start to run,” he told the participants of chocolate making explaining the who were mostly cacao growers and importance of each step. “tableya” processors. The two-day training was held at Heemskerk is a food technologist the ATI Training Complex on February and chocolate processor from the 21 and 22. February 22-28, 2020
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