The process of growing and harvesting the raw materials.
Chocolate production begins with harvesting cocoa in a forest. Cocoa comes from tropical evergreen
Cocoa trees which grown in wet lowland tropics of Central/South America, West Africa. Southeast Asia.
It is harvested manually.
1. Seed pods of cocoa will be collected. They will then be filtered through to determine which ones to
keep. They will be sorted out into piles, preparing them for fermentation.
2. They’re placed in large, heated trays or covered with large banana leaves. Depending on the climate,
they might just be heated by the sun. Workers stir up the beans once in a while so all are equally
fermented. This is when the beans turn brown - 5 to 8 days.
3. Drying the cocoa seeds. Now, the farmers will spread out the fermented seeds onto trays, and leave
them out in the sun for about a week. Afterwards, they are sent out to manufacturers, for further work.
RAW MATERIALS
COCOA BEANS
FUEL/ENERGY
The sun
Might be used during the fermentation process, instead of heated trays.
Typically used in the drying process, where beans are laid out to dry.