The effect of sack covers and openings in cocoa minibox fermentation
An experiment on cocoa minibox fermentation has been carried out on the Kalikempit estate of the State-owned Estate Company XXVI situated in the Banyauwangi region in East Java. For this purpose wooden miniboxes with varying number of clefts or openings were used. After the cocoa beans had been put into the minibox, it was covered with a varying number of sacks. The design of the experiment was factorial 2 x 4, having two levels of sack covers and four levels of opening numbers. Each treatment was done in 3 replications. For comparison with estate practice, the data of the sweat box fermentation was also given. The effect of the number of openings and covers on loss of weight of the cocoa beans after fermentation, recovery and percentage of fermented beans, was studied. From this experiment it can be concluded, that compared with the other treatments and also with sweat box fermentation used on estates, miniboxes having 3 or 5 clefts with 2 covers gave the best results.
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| Format: | biblioteca |
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1976
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| Subjects: | CACAO, FERMENTACION, SACOS, DESTAPADO, METODOS DE FERMENTACION, JAVA, |
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