"About the product" We visit farms all over Vietnam and purchase cacao beans from Ba Ria Vung Tau and Ben Tre carefully selected from them. These cacao beans are purchased directly from farms through fair trade and imported to Japan as they are without intermediaries. For bean-to-bar manufacturers, there is also a wholesale price of 5 kg or more. Please feel free to contact us. "Purchase" We believe that the factors that affect the flavor of cocoa beans are "variety", "soil", "weather", "cultivation method", "fermentation and drying", and "storage and transportation", but the most important of these is the "fermentation" process, which is the most important factor that determines the aroma and flavor of chocolate and cocoa. Here is a brief introduction to the process by which we ship cocoa beans together with cocoa farms. 1. Harvesting It can be harvested all year round, but in the eastern and mountainous areas, the harvest is concentrated in the dry season of November ~ April to reduce pest damage. 2． Removing pulp-wrapped cocoa beans from cocoa pods 3. Fermentation What is a fermenter in a wooden box? Let it ferment for about 5 days. How do you do this fermentation process? Acetic acid and amino acids are generated to foster the formation that is the source of the aroma of chocolate. 4. Drying Expose to sunlight while stirring several times for about a week. While watching the weather of the day, expose it to sunlight or cover it with vinyl, and if the moisture content exceeds 7 degrees, it is finished. 5. Storage It is stored in a burlap bag in a warehouse in the sun with good ventilation. 6. Purchase (cut test, inspection, export) Among the ABC and D ranks of cocoa beans, we only buy A rank at a fair price. The purchase price is C? It is almost twice the price of the D rank. We believe that being able to give cacao farmers confidence that "if you produce high-quality cacao beans, you can sell them at a high price, and your cacao is high-quality cacao" will lead to an increase in overall quality. CAF at the time of export? Undergo CONTROL's plant tests to find out if Slaty beans are underfermented, worm-eaten, germinated, or stuck? We re-inspect the cocoa beans for stones, fragments, and mold, and export cocoa beans that meet the standard values by air. [About pesticide-free and organic fertilizer] ? We check the pesticides and fertilizers used by local farms and purchase them in partnership with farms that do not use pesticides. The farm uses organic fertilizer as much as possible and uses a cultivation method close to organic cultivation. However, there is no organization such as JAS that certifies organic in Vietnam, and farmers do not know the organic evaluation criteria. In addition, depending on the amount of harvest, some farms buy cacao fruits from cacao farms of various sizes, ferment and dry, and sell cacao beans. Cacao fruits collected from several small farms may also be mixed, and we believe that not all farms are pesticide-free. For this reason, we do not introduce organic cacao. Also, when importing cacao beans to Japan, Is it inspected for the presence of pesticide residues? Required? An instructional inspection, or an unannounced inspection? Targeted Monitor Links? Is it to carry out an inspection? It is. If the import is denied, it must be disposed of or resold to a third country. For the above reasons, our local office confirms the use of pesticides and fertilizers at partner farms and small farms in the vicinity, and conducts inspections at inspection agencies at the time of shipment, so that we can one day make cacao that will be certified as organic cacao, and we are working with local farmers every day.