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MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – The Philippines is in need of at least 50,000 metric tons of cacao per year. However, local producers are only able to supply 10,000 tons or 1/5 of the actual demand, according to…
MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — A mother from Tagbilaran City, Bohol has managed to send her five kids to college from the earnings that she saved from making and selling homemade tableya (cacao tablets). Elsa Polot, 58, was…
We all love chocolates, right? But do you know where chocolates come from? Our favorite childhood treat comes from cacao. Cacao is the pure form of chocolates. It comes from the Theobroma cacao tree, which means “food…
Our favorite childhood treat, chocolate, comes from beans from the cacao tree. And it is through these healthy beans that would help 27 year-old Jansel Navarro start his dream business. Three years ago, Navarro started the JN Cacao to…
Do you want to lose weight, but don’t know which food can help? The healthiest way to lose weight is by adding superfoods to your everyday diet. What makes them so super is their ability to provide…
Senator Cynthia Villar said there is a need to focus on the development of cacao and dairy industries in Cebu and the rest of the country to encourage Filipinos to patronize local produce. Villar said that only…
EACH one of us has a unique gift from above worth sharing with the rest of the world, and for The Chocolate Chamber (TCC), it’s their cacao concoctions that bring delight to every soul that tastes it.…
THERE’S a purpose behind every dream. For Chocolate Queen Raquel Choa, her passion for chocolate became a pursuit to inspire others to value their dreams. From her grassroots of learning to make pure chocolate or tablea…
Realizing the economic potential of the local cacao industry, the Cebu Provincial Agriculture Office will push for more financial assistance from the Cebu provincial government, but only after the office complete its study on the cacao farmers…
Considered among the country’s poorest, coconut farmers now have the opportunity to improve their earnings by going into cacao and coffee intercropping, Sen. Cynthia Villar said Tuesday. Coconut farmers earn around of P1,500 monthly, which is way…
Cebu’s role Having more tablea makers in Cebu can help boost the cacao industry in Davao, which is the largest producer of cacao in the country. Nelia Navarro, Department of Trade and Industry Central Visayas (DTI-7) officer…
JUST like the legend of Maria Cacao, believed to be the queen of cacao forest who traveled all over the world on a magical ship, Raquel Choa’s incredible story about her discovery of cacao in the remote…
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