PlusPlus: helping small food firms to grow via crowdfunding
Photo: part of the Pod Chocolate production line. Photo: Pod In a small chocolate production facility in Bali, the pandemic wasn’t just a health crisis. For Pod Chocolate, which works with local farmers to produce all-vegetable, artisanal chocolate, production almost ground to a halt. ‘It was a time of huge uncertainty as the government rationed essential foods which included sugar, our second largest raw material,’ recalls chief executive Toby Garritt. ‘Suddenly we could not get sugar to produce chocolate! This threatened to stop our production, which would also impact our work with ...
Source: dutchnews.nl