EIGHT cocoa farmers from
Tailevu will visit Sweden in September to develop their skills
in cocoa production and chocolate
making.
Tailevu Provincial Council
chairman Josefa Serulagilagi says the visit is the result of
an understanding between the governments of Fiji and
Sweden.
He says eight experts from Sweden have
been in the country conducting workshops on chocolate
production.
Seruilagilagi said,
“We’ve done an exercise in Namau last week and children from
Namau going to school and carrying their own chocolates,
that’s the local one being done in their own backyards and
everybody was quite surprised with what’s happened now because
of the differences in price and the kind of chocolate they
will get. So they are in the country right now by Saturday
they are going to go back after gathering so many information
we have over here. And in there they are going to let us to
come over to Sweden”.
Seruilagilagi says since
the workshops, several producers at Namau begun producing
cocoa drinks.
He says discussions on the
establishment of a chocolate factory in the province have also
been fruitful.
