Social Impact NURSERY PROGRAM
Auro Chocolate’s Nursery Program is an initiative to help sustain the future of cacao farming in our partner farming communities. For generations, the smallholder farmers in the areas we work with have cultivated unique cacao varieties that helped shape the distinct notes of their beans. The rich flavour profile of their beans has opened up new opportunities for them including receiving various international awards that have brought much recognition and opened up new markets that help sustain their farms. However, there is a recent threat of these unique profiles potentially disappearing in the form of new varieties being slowly distributed in the area. As their partners, we recognize the importance of ensuring the persistence these existing varieties in local farms.We have worked together with the leaders of the communities to form the Nursery Program, focusing on the safeguarding of existing cacao varieties in their areas. By providing financial and technical support for the nurseries, we help communities guarantee a future for cacao and the preservation of these origins’ identity and securing a livelihood for present and future cacao farmers.
Furthermore, by providing better accessibility to the cacao seedlings, we empower them to continue their practices of agroforestry and organic farming practices, allowing us to work together in protecting and preserving the environment. Program Details Through this program, we are able to guarantee a hopeful future for cacao farmers while ensuring the preservation of each community’s flavour identity.
With the Nursery Program, Auro is:
• providing around 10,000 seedlings from the community; • conducting nursery management training; and • committing to provide support to monitor the productivity of the trees and assist in its improvement through field visits and quarterly assessments. We will provide support in productivity assessments of these farms with a minimum yield goal that can ensure a productive future for their farms.As their partners, we commit to be with them every step of the way and provide the necessary support.We hope to build a bright future for fine flavoured, sustainable cacao.
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