Post-harvest handling of cocoa commodities

The purpose of this research is to get the management of cocoa commodity post-treatment and is explicitly to know the feasibility of the post-harvest handling, knowing the costs incurred by farmers during post-harvest, analyzing fat content, moisture content, and the levels of cocoa bean polyphenols production. The research was conducted in Marioriwawo, Lilirilau, Citta, and Liliriaja, Soppeng regency. Testing of chemical properties in the Laboratory of Chemistry Engineering Makassar Polytechnic. Results of post-harvest treatment stages include harvest time, fruit picking, fruit breakdown, sorting of seeds, fermentation, drying, packaging, and storage. The process of post-harvest handling phase is, post-harvest handling conducted by farmers can be said to be worthy because almost 100% of farmers do post-harvest handling following the guidelines technical improvement movement of national cocoa production and quality. The cost of farmers who do the fermentation is higher than the cost incurred by farmers who do not ferment. The level of cocoa beans has been following the prevailing SNI (Indonesian National Standard). The fat of cocoa beans has not been a valid SNI, but it has a quite high- fat content.