CHOCOLATE BARS. Chocolate products available only in Adams, Ilocos Norte. With a renewed interest to plant high-value commercial crops, cacao growers are expanding their plantations.(Photo by Leilanie G. Adriano) LAOAG CITY - An indigenous peoples (IPs) community in Adams, Ilocos Norte is eyeing to expand their existing cacao farms to plant more varieties and make more chocolate products. From an existing 1,350 cacao trees, IP growers in the community are eyeing the development of at least 10 more hectares of cacao plantation as a start-up program to sustain a local chocolate factory in the area, Bielmaju Walley, a doctor and a high-value crop farmer and food processor, said on Thursday. In the 1980s, several cacao varieties were introduced in Adams, making the municipality the cacao capital of Ilocos Norte. Walley, who owns a small chocolate factory that produces chocolate bars, tablea, cacao wine, and chocomint drinks, is assisting the farmers in the municipality to achieve the goal
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