Cocoa And Chocolate
The Tree, The Bean The Beverage

COST OF CACAO PRODUCTION 103 ESTIMATED COST OF PRODUCTION OF BACH CWT. OF CACAO IN TRINIDAD Salaries and General Expenses— £ s. d. £ s. d. Overlookers . . 16 Watchmen 1 Messenger 1 Cultivation— (a) Cattle Establishment : Cost and keep of stock . 2 4 Upkeep of grass fields (cutting grass) 1 — bhoemg and harness repairs . 3 (6) Plantation : Application of manure . 3 Mulching 6 Cutlassing, weeding and forlang 2 6 Diseases and pests (including rats squirrels, ants, black cacao, etc.) 9 Roads and drains . 1 Pruning 2 6 Supplying cacao trees . 2 Shade trees and plants . 3 Reaping and Preparation for the Market— Gathering and picking 2 7 Heaping, cutting, extracting and con- veying to the fermentary 2 8 Curing, sorting and bagging 1 7 Transport (carting) . 6 Upkeep of Buildings, etc.— Repairs to buildings 7 Miscellaneous . 3 10 Total 2 3 Cost of Production and Sale Price. To judge from the figures published in the U.S.A. Consular Report on. cacao in 1912, it would appear that, in pre-war days, on the average the planter received for his beans twice what it had cost him to produce them. Thus in San Thorné and Para the.profit was 50 per cent of the value