Roadmapping for improving cocoa postharvest management
This article presents the methodology and results which led to preparing post-harvesting technological development strategies for cocoa management which emerged from identifying problems such as deficient cocoa quality and insufficient fermentation of the beans according to international market requ...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2008-09-01
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| Series: | Ingeniería e Investigación |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ingeinv/article/view/15135 |
| Summary: | This article presents the methodology and results which led to preparing post-harvesting technological development strategies for cocoa management which emerged from identifying problems such as deficient cocoa quality and insufficient fermentation of the beans according to international market requirements as shown in the poor technological development in Colombia’s main co-coa producing areas. This situation led to using a technological management tool such as roadmapping orientated towards for-mulating strategies for the technological development of cocoa postharvest management. The methodological process so im-plemented involved experts’ ongoing participation in enriching and validating results whilst four phases were implemented: per-formance analysis, gap analysing, structuring roadmapping and formulating cocoa postharvest technological development stra-tegies. The results obtained in this investigation were directed towards improving Colombian cocoa sector competitiveness in in-ternal and external markets. |
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| ISSN: | 0120-5609 2248-8723 |