Brazil can be recognized as a producing and exporting country of fine or aroma cocoa by the Council of the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Until the month of September, the country will be able to be recognized and if the result is positive, it will be the first time that cocoa beans exported by Brazil will be internationally recognized as fine or aromatic by ICCO, becoming part of the select group of countries certified by this international body.
Recognition must add value to the product sold abroad, observes the director of Ceplac, Guilherme Galvão. “The international recognition of the quality of cocoa beans exported by Brazil represents a niche in the global market with the potential to boost quality production. In addition to their superior quality compared to regular cocoa (commodity), fine or aroma cocoa beans have a higher value on the market.”
For Fernando Mendes, the work of the OICACAU Group, made up of representatives from Ceplac and the Secretariat of Commerce and International Relations (SCRI/Mapa) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE), covered all of ICCO's demands on the quality of cocoa beans exported by Brazil in a time frame up to 2017.
The procedure for international recognition of countries is described in the text of the 2010 International Cocoa Agreement, and provides for ICCO advisors to meet every two years to finalize analyzes and judge the claims submitted in a technical dossier from exporters. In the case of Brazil, the dossier with the required information was prepared by the Brazilian government's OICACAU Group.
Post | Guilherme R. Bezzarro
Author | Leonardo Gottems
Source | agrolink
