Cocoa
Bean Exchange has aligned with strategic producers allowing the business to offer multi-layer sales and volume options via 60kg bag container shipments to all global ports and destinations.
Our quality and robust quality and grading allow us to deliver consistent quality throughout the seasons.
Our four main types of cacao beans – Forastero, Trinitario, Criollo, and Nacional – are cultivated for use in making chocolate
Grown in over 800m above sea level attitude where annual rainfalls range between 1800mm to 5000m with Smallholder farmers responsible for more than 80% of cocoa production.
Peak production periods are MAY through to July, however, other months produce consistent volumes throughout, however, you will see variations of production peaks from region to region.
In 2016 the Cocoa industry formulated a strategic plan that has set ambitious targets of 310,000 tonnes of cocoa annual available exports by 2030, with a requirement of approximately an 8-fold increase in production required.
The Papua New Guinea Cocoa Board is a statutory body responsible for promoting the development of the cocoa industry in PNG and facilitating the export of cocoa beans and cocoa products. Some of the specific roles of the Cocoa Board include:
