Ask Ken & Shiela | Cacao Farm Edition
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- We are celebrating a milestone in Cacao Culture PH because we are now 4000 subscribers strong!
As a way to show our gratitude to you fam, we'd like to share a video of us answering your questions all about cacao and chocolates!
2:55 Ideal farm size of a cacao farm
5:25 Farm location based on elevation
8:25 Farming on a steep hill
11:55 Grafted vs ungrafted seedlings
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Milestone Unlocked! Thank you guys for subscribing and growing our community to 4,000! Keep asking those questions and we will try our best to share what we know, and our experiences in growing cacao and making chocolates in the Philippines.
Please know that you are helping people out here. Thank you all very much for sharing your knowledge. It is much appreciated.
Hi Kile thanks for watching our videos and supporting the channel. We appreciate the feedback. We just try our best and hope that the information an help someone in their cacao and chocolate journey
Subscribed na po. Mag fafarm din ako ng cacao
I know I will never get to the Philippines, but I have much enjoyed watching the growth of cacao there and you wonderful videos
Thank you so much Matthew. Glad you enjoyed our videos. Appreciate the support 🥰
I bought my first 25 cacao seedlings in 2019. Now I'll buy another batch. Thank you for the informative videos.
Congrats! ♥️
I am just a new to your channel..Millenial here and very much willing to learn and venture on cacao farming and entrep..
Welcome aboard! Thanks for watching our videos and supporting the channel! Good luck on your cacao and entrep journey!
@@cacaocultureph Thanks much, learning from you po..
May God bless you and keep you safe..
Thank you so much po for sharing your knowledge in cacao to us. Nakakainspire po magstart! More and better platforms po to share your content🥰❤️
Thank you 🙏 for watching and supporting the channel. We hope to make more videos soon
Thank you for sharing your experience and your knowledge. That's really interesting. I would love to know a little bit more about budgets for all these operations. Is the business really profitable aside the fact that's it's might be really exciting to see and experience the growing and processing what Mother Earth gives to us as a present ? BTW congratulations for your determination.
Thanks CD for supporting the channel. Profitability depends on how the business is done and managed. No farm is the same and no one business is the same. So it is always difficult for me to say that cacao is profitable for everyone who would want to go into it. On the farming side, managed properly, will do well at 5ha above. We balance things out with production and marketing of chocolates.
Congrats Ken and Shiels!
Thanks Daddy Barber 🇵🇭😍 Patuloy lang kayod.
Very well-explained video on cultivating cacao.
Thank you so much for the feedback ❤️ We appreciate you for watching our videos and supporting the channel 🍫
Congrats on 4k!
Thank you so much 😀
Being couple work together is sooo powerful
Thank You Neil for your comments and supporting our channel! God Bless!😍🇵🇭
Also, cacao is utilized to make chocolate, which is a great snack for before and after a workout.
Yes best snack for us too😍🍫
Materials input in cacao sir.
God bless po.
Very soon! God bless din Alkhair. salamat sa pag support sa aming channel
Clarification lang po, sa isa nyo pong video (How to start a cacao farm) sinabi nyo po doon na ang elevation is between 300 to 1200 meters above see level. Tapos dito sabi nyo 600 to 800 ft. Masyado malaki po ang difference. Which one is correct? Im Planning to start a cacao farm in the near future and start doing my research. Your videos are very informative. Thanks
Hi JR thanks for your question😊 marami kasi nag ask sa amin if their farms pwede ba taniman ng cacao. The 300-1200 range ay areas na pwede. It can be planted, it will grow. The 600-800 is the sweet spot where studies have shown a more productive output based only on area location.
Maraming factors talaga but if we only take into account the location the 600-800 is the ideal.
Hi! Curious local chocolate fan here. What do you to promote your local chocolate to Filipinos? I get that foreigners love our exports but why do a lot Filipinos still have this notion that imported chocolate is quality chocolate while locally processed chocolate are deemed cheap and lack premium flavor. It sucks to think that they are missing out on a gem that is THE FILIPINO CHOCOLATE.
Advertising and marketing has locked our consumer minds to see imported chocolates are more premium, and our pasalubong culture of family coming home bringing imported chocolates compounds that notion.
All we can do is level up our products, market them and build a local fan base. We also promote a reverse pasalubong where we bring our local chocolates out of the country as well as gifts😊
Thanks for watching the video and supporting the channel
Hi! Thank you for sharing your journey! Nakakainspire Lalo sa kagaya nmin Ng husband ko na magsisimula pa lang. Any idea if okay magplant Ng cacao sa La Union? Mostly napapanood ksi nmin is Banda sa Davao. :)
Hi Camille, thanks for watching the videos and supporting the channel. Davao region has the highest concentration of cacao farms. Recently announced Cacao Capital sa PH that’s why you commonly see davao based cacao farms.
I am not sure if La Union is suitable for Cacao. I am not knowledgeable enough with the area.
Hi Sir Ken & ma'am Shiela, your episodes are truly informative. May I know what are the facilities you built when you started a cacao farm? thank you so much!
Hi Jat thanks for watching the videos and supporting the channel. We have so far built a drying area on site. Our own Fermentation area we are still working on putting up one on site but for now we use other fermentation sites from coops or other farms that we know.
Hi sir and ma’am ask ko lng po kung San pwde maka order ng fresh criollo seeds.
We do not grow criollo po. You can check facebook groups po to see who can sell you criollo seeds
Pwd ko mo palit og grafted seedlings Sir bisan 5seedlings lang naa ra rako s Tibungco Davao City, watching your video here in kuwait🇰🇼
Hi thank you for watching our videos. We have stopped selling seedlings since 2019 when we decided to focus on our farm operations and producing chocolates. I am sure there are a lot of seedling nursery in Davao ready to help you.
@@cacaocultureph ahh OK lng Ma'am and Sir😊
How manny farm worker ko kelangan sa 3 hectars?
Hi thanks for supporting the channel. We are currently at 3-4 people but I think we can be more efficient at 3 people. We also add people during harvest time. Hope this helps
Hi po sir, ma'am i would like to start a small business po Sana may pa advice kayu
Our Advice is research, test your product sa market, get real and honest feedback and improve 🍫 then repeat 🥰
Good luck on your cacao journey
Hi Sir Ken and Mam Shiela. Ask ko lang po bakit kaya nagkaroon ng black mold on the 3rd day of fermentation ng cacao beans? Estimate ko more than 1kilo of beans lang po un and ginawa ko po fermentation sa basket. Binalot sa dahon ng saging at binalot pa uli sa towel. Nakaka hinayang. Pwede pa po kaya masave un? Thanks and stay safe. God bless.
Sir Ervin, thank you sa pagsubaybay sa aming channel and sa pagpanuod ng mga videos. I have not encountered that issue kaya di po kami makapag recommend kung ano gagawin to salvage it. Sa proceso ng fermentation may point na need po mag drip out ng excess water baka lang po yung towel sucked up the water kaya damp kaya nag develop ng molds. Banana leaves is enough na po siguro for your next experiment. Wag po kayo madismaya, marami pong trial and error na mangyayari.
Good Luck po sa inyong cacao journey.
Question: i fermented the seeds about 7 nuts, when i chked in the 4th day, there were white worms. Is this normal or i should throw them?
Hi Cristy, i am not sure why this happened but this is not normal. 7 pods of cacao is not enough for fermentation. Volume needs to be big enough to generate heat up to 50 degrees C
@@cacaocultureph Thank you for your reply. We just have two trees in our backyard, is not for commercial production. So I can't ferment for few nuts only. So what would you suggest?
@@cristysagcal4219 wash away the pulp and dry the beans. This is just plain sun-dried beans. You can still roast them and grind the beans into tablea paste.
Sa cacao farming po. Ilang buwan or taon ang hihintayin po natin bago po tayo makaharvest sa grafted at hindi grafted?
Typically nasa 2.5 years ang start pag bunga ng cacao tree mula sa seedling. However, mas malaki po ang factor ng farm management, proper fertilization and conditions para magbunga ng ganyan time or even mas maaga.
Ang pagiging grafted ng isang cacao seedling ay nakakatulong na mas malaki ang probabilidad na maganda ang tubo o ang lahi ng cacao tree pero nasa pag aalaga at farm conditions po ninyo kung bakit pwedeng mapaaga ang pagbungga nito.
Sana po nakatulong kami sa inyo maam Jarissa. Salamat sa patuloy na suporta sa aming munting channel dito sa CZcams.
Sa farm management po marami po ba ang icoconsider