The Autonomous Bougainville government is holding a chocolate festival in June in an attempt to persuade local people to grow good quality cocoa which would then be exported to make chocolate.
AN Australian premium chocolate producer is encouraging people on the Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville to look at planting cocoa now to take advantage of an expected global shortage in a few years, writes Barry Avery.
The Autonomous Bougainville government is holding a chocolate festival in June in an attempt to persuade local people to grow good quality cocoa which would then be exported to make chocolate.