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WHITE AND RED KIDNEY BEANS FROM MADAGASCAR

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Cocoa of Madagascar: Named Awards excellent cocoa

All the cocoa beans are not equal. International Cocoa Awards (ICO) is the only competition to the world to celebrate the wealth of the aromas of the cocoa according to their soil. The potential of a cocoa bean to make some chocolate of high quality depends on its genetic origin, on the effect still mysterious "soil" and on the work of the people who collect them and transform them.

Awards values the representative sensory characteristics of a high quality and so reward excellent cocoas according to their origin. The objective is to make, to all the actors of the sector, cocoa of the quality, the diversity and the wealth of the origins become aware of cocoa.

The culture of the cocoa in Madagascar represents an annual average production of 10 000 tons. This production results from 3 variety cultivated in mixture in the existing plantations: "Criollo", little productive and sensitive to the chances bioticks and abiotics but very popular for his pronounced aroma and its weak bitterness, "Forastero", sturdy variety giving some bitter chocolate little appreciated in the international trade, and "Trinitario", hybrid between these two variety .

The cocoa beans of Madagascar is so considered as being among the best of the world.