{"id":547711,"date":"2025-06-09T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=547711"},"modified":"2025-06-09T16:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:29:45","slug":"fermentation-system-can-increase-cocoa-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/fermentation-system-can-increase-cocoa-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Fermentation system can increase cocoa production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A management system for processing cocoa beans could double production and triple farmers\u2019 profits in up to three years. The innovation combines the use of a machine to break the cocoa pods and improved operating and logistics systems for fermentation, drying, and storage. \u201cWith this system, farmers can carry out high-quality fermentation to produce fine cocoa,\u201d explains Andr\u00e9 Mesquita, president of Lago de Tucuru\u00ed Technology Park, an incubator based at the Federal University of Par\u00e1 (UFPA). The new system includes the installation of a machine capable of producing 1,200 kilograms of wet cocoa per hour, as well as other improvements. The next step, says Mesquita, is to develop a new machine to break open the pods. \u201cThe machines on the market allow for high productivity, but they make the almonds very dirty. The shell gets broken into a lot of small pieces. For the basic cocoa market this is not important, but for the fine cocoa market it is a problem\u201d (<em>Engenharia Agr\u00edcola<\/em>, <em>Ag\u00eancia Bori<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Management system for processing cocoa beans could double production and triple profits","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[1637],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-547711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-agriculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547716,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547711\/revisions\/547716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547711"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=547711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}