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        "id": 1512708,
        "msgid": "sulawesi-cacao-output-unaffected-by-fires-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-09-29 00:00:00",
        "title": "Sulawesi cacao output unaffected by fires",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Sulawesi cacao output unaffected by fires JAKARTA (JP): South Sulawesi's cacao output, which accounts for nearly half of Indonesia's total exports, has not been affected by the bush and forest fires raging in parts of the province, the local chapter of the Indonesian Cocoa Association said. Chairman Cornelis Patty said in Ujungpandang Saturday that a fire at a private cocoa plantation in Mamuju regency had already been extinguished, Antara reported.",
        "content": "<p>Sulawesi cacao output unaffected by fires<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): South Sulawesi's cacao output, which accounts<br>\nfor nearly half of Indonesia's total exports, has not been<br>\naffected by the bush and forest fires raging in parts of the<br>\nprovince, the local chapter of the Indonesian Cocoa Association<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Cornelis Patty said in Ujungpandang Saturday that a<br>\nfire at a private cocoa plantation in Mamuju regency had already<br>\nbeen extinguished, Antara reported.<\/p>\n<p>There were no other reports of fires affecting cacao<br>\nplantations, including those that were run by smallholder<br>\nfarmers, in the province, Cornelis said.<\/p>\n<p>Mamuju, Luwu and Polmas regencies were the biggest cacao<br>\nproducing areas so that any decline in output would have a big<br>\nimpact on South Sulawesi's total production, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Agriculture Sjarifuddin Baharsjah said last week<br>\nthat fires which had hit some 173 plantations in Indonesia would<br>\nprobably have an impact on commodity supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Cacao is South Sulawesi's main export.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 155,000 tons of the 323,000 tons of cacao Indonesia<br>\nexported came from the province.<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 130,000 hectares of cacao plantations in<br>\nthe province, mostly smallholder plantations, More than 170,000<br>\nfarmers grow the crop.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia's cacao production was 330,000 tons last year making<br>\nit the world's third biggest producer, after the Ivory Coast<br>\n(1.12 million tons) and Ghana (404,000 tons). (08)<\/p>",
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