Essay About Cocoa

Cocoa is one of the commercial plants in the world. Most cocoa is plant in developing country. The most valuable part of this plant is that cocoa beans. Most of the cocoa beans produced in the country and exported out of the country importing processed cocoa bean subsequent re-exported to developing countries at high prices (Adewumi, 1997).

1.1 Cocoa Crop Acreage
Cocoa cultivation began in the 70s again in Malaysia. Malaysia ever to a third country in the world cocoa industry ( Malaysian Cocoa Board , 1998 ).However , the percentage of cocoa cultivation area dropped sharply from 414.236 ha in 2000 to 20.947 ha in 2008 (Department of Agriculture, Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak and Sabah, 2009). The acreage is estimated to increase to 20,826 ha (Malaysian Cocoa Board, 2009).

1.2 Types of Clone Cocoa
Cocoa plant material is one of the main factors to increase production. It is closely associated

Traditional process was doing manually by using knife and wooden bat. Use of manual process can harm the quality of cocoa beans. There were some problems that occur and need to be considered.
1) Cocoa pod breaking is a very labour intensive and time consuming operation.
2) Fresh beans are usually contaminated with small cocoa pods fragments.
1.7 Objectives of Study Generally, the aim of the study was to create the technology for breaking and separating of cocoa beans. The main objectives for the study were:
1) To modify the existing tool of cocoa beans breaker.
2) To determine the capacity and efficiency of the device or machine. The device is expected to be efficiently operated, comfortable, safe and easy to handle. The efficiency of the device is up to