Pioneering Projects
Despite intensive and careful work, many cocoa farmers live in impoverished circumstances. The non-transparent trade channels with many interim dealers, small farming areas, insufficient farming practices, the lack of access to inputs, the ageing of the existing trees coupled with the challenging care that they require all contribute to the farmers' income often being very low.
Many cocoa farmers are therefore turning their backs on farming entirely. Kwame Osei, 65 years old, is one of more than 52,000 Ghanaian small-scale farmers who supply cocoa for LINDT chocolate and he dreams of his youngest daughter one day taking over his cocoa plantation in Ghana.
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