Claim · model-written summary
Moisture content of cocoa beans was higher in the wet season than in the dry season.
- Taxon
- cocoa beanse2
- Outcome
- Moisture contente2
- Direction
- highere2
- Comparator
- dry seasone2
- Setting
- wet seasone2
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentValueQualifier
Verbatim
e2“Moisture content of cocoa beans collected during the wet season was higher than in the dry season”
e0“Surveys on postharvest handling and technology processing of cocoa beans at farmer, trader and exporter levels in South Sulawesi were conducted”
Title
THE OCCURRENCE OF INSECTS AND MOULDS IN STORED COCOA BEANS AT SOUTH SULAWESI
OKKY S. DHARMAPUTRA BIOTROPIA 2019. doi:10.11598/btb.1999.0.12.147
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Moisture content of cocoa beans from farmers, traders and exporters was higher than the SNI tolerable limit of 7.5%.
- Observation Insects were found on cocoa beans collected from traders and exporters.
- Observation The predominant insect species in stored cocoa beans was Tribolium castaneum.
- Association At trader level, the percentage of insect-damaged beans was higher in the wet season than in the dry season.
- Association At exporter level, the percentage of insect-damaged beans was lower in the wet season than in the dry season.
- Association The percentage of mouldy beans at farmer level was lower than the SNI limit of 4%.
- Association Some mouldy-bean samples from trader and exporter levels had percentages higher than 4%.
- Observation By direct plating, all samples at trader and exporter levels were mouldy.
- Association The percentage of mouldy beans increased at trader and exporter levels.
- Association Reducing sugar and free amino acid content of cocoa beans was higher in the dry season than in the wet season.
- Association Free fatty acid content of cocoa beans tended to be higher in the wet season than in the dry season.
- Observation Species composition and the presence of each insect species varied between the two seasons.