Who Buys Cocoa-Bean
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Shells?
WHO wants cocoa-bean shells?
The New Guinea Administration pays to planters a bounty of IJd per pound on cocoa-bean shells produced in New Guinea and sold in Australia: but, according to a correspondent in New Britain, there is no market for the commodity.
“I have tried every means I possibly can to get a market for the discarded shells, but devil a one can I find,” he writes. “I understand they have value as a fertiliser —but where and when? The big firms here cannot help me.”
Can anyone answer the question?