Caribbean Export 2021 Annual Report FINAL

SUCCESS STORY

BRINGING AgTech TO COCOA FARMS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

The Confederacion Nacional de Cacaocultures Dominicano (Conacado) is the country’s largest producer and exporter of organic cocoa products accounting for 49.8% of the country’s total production. The organisation partners with some 1000 farms who supply cocoa however do not hold the internationally recognised EU / NOP organic certification. To support increasing their competitiveness and their inclusion in the global market CONACADO were supported with the purchase of thirty (30) handheld GPS systems to enable them to georeference 1000 cocoa farms affiliated with them. A total of twenty-one (21) employees (17 males and 4 females) were trained on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), in the process of field data collection and feed Geographic Information Systems (GIS). To date 230 farms have been georeferenced and the introduction of this AgTech will increase their efficiency and enable CONACADO to obtain international organic certification.

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