Quality control of Papua New Guinea cocoa beans

Papua New Guinea has a reputation for supplying good quality beans and this achievement was assisted by a two tier inspection system. Firstly the farmer must have a more or less standard, well equipped fermentary which was capable of satisfying the second level of inspection which was carried out on all dry beans before sale. This paper describes how the two levels, one controlled by the Cocoa Board of Papua New Guinea and the other by the Department of Primary Industry, operated under the powers given by the Cocoa Act 1981.