Farmer Support
STRENGTHENING FARMER PARTNERSHIP
Providing farmers the support they need is another core part of what we do. As their partners, we want to ensure that we can help them achieve good quality beans and better yields.We understand that cacao farming is laborious and costly, which is why we try to provide contributions to their farm activities and improvements when we can.
During the past year, we were able to provide the following support:
Financial support for the Harvest Season Every harvest season, we release monetary assistance to some of our smallholder farmers who help consolidate the cacao beans of our other partners in their area.The advance money helps them pay farmers for their beans immediately and prepare the logistics they need to transfer the beans. Productivity Assistance for Farm Inputs It takes great care and a considerable expense to produce good quality cacao beans.To help ease the burden in activities that smallholder farmers need to perform before and after harvest season, we open our assistance for any farm inputs they may need either financially or through in-kind contributions. This year, we were able to distribute sleeves that they use to prevent cacao pod diseases and lend some financial assistance.We are also looking to further improve the ways we can help by understanding how we can better provide access to inputs that they may need.
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