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The great part of cocoa cultivation occurs in the Matale, Kandy, Badulla, Kurunegala, Kegalle and Monaragala districts. The first cocoa plants were introduced to the country in 1819. [1] Recent years cocoa production has increased by nearly $22.6 million (2015). [2] In 2019, the country ranked 30th of the largest cocoa producers in the world.
Its fruits, cocoa pods, grow along its trunk and thicker branches, [1] which when ripe are cut down with knives and machetes. These pods are cut or cracked open using knives or clubs, revealing 30–45 oval beans (the seed of the plant) covered in a white pulp. They are removed by hand, and the placenta they are attached to is removed. [2]
The cocoa bean, also known as cocoa (/ ˈ k oʊ. k oʊ /) or cacao (/ k ə ˈ k aʊ /), [1] is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted. Cacao trees are native to the Amazon rainforest.
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Chena is the oldest cultivation method in Sri Lanka, it goes far back as more than 5,000 years.(Before the Anuradhapura Kingdom) [1] [2] it the dry zone, the recovery of a chena plot proceeds through various stages of succession, (active chena, abandoned chena, chena re-growth, scrub with pioneer three species, scrub with secondary tree species, secondary forest, secondary forest with primary ...
The following list provides the 704 species of common trees and shrubs of flora of Sri Lanka under 95 families. The list is according to A Field Guide to the Common Trees and Shrubs of Sri Lanka, by Mark Ashton, Savitri Gunatilleke, Neela de Zoysa, M.D. Dassanayake, Nimal Gunatilleke and Siril Wijesundera. [1]
The company was incorporated under Nestlé Ceylon Company to Nestlé Lanka PLC in 1980. Sri Lanka has been an agricultural-based country. British Empire helped boost agricultural production. The British government's first cocoa plant was introduced to Ceylon in early 1890. Early 20th-century raw cocoa was exported to Switzerland.
Kokoona zeylanica, known in Sinhala as කොකුන් (Kokun) is a species of plant in the family Celastraceae. It is not to be confused with the similar sounding word කොකුම් which stands for the Kokum plant. The genus was formerly classified in the family Hippocrateaceae. [1] It is endemic to Sri Lanka.