Cocoa Project with Farmers
Cocoa benefits ~150,000 households in PNG. The Government’s target by PNG Cocoa Board (PNGCB) is to get 310,000 tonnes of cocoa by 2030.
Presently, almost all of PNG’s cocoa is exported as dry beans while less than 1% is processed mainly into cocoa powder, cocoa butter and chocolates.
In 2024, as Lead Partner under the PNG Agriculture Commercialization and Diversification (PACD) project funded by the World Bank and PNG Government, we are working with cocoa farmers from Wampar (Huon Gulf) and Umi Atzera (Markham) Districts, Morobe.
The project will deliver interventions in cocoa production, quality control, marketing and capacity building to help increase cash income, strengthen farmer capacity, reduce postharvest losses; and improve overall livelihoods and socio-economic growth.
Apart from Morobe, in the Sepik region, we are also working on cocoa production and marketing with farmers as we have physical presence in Wewak/Sepik. This work also compliments the efforts of the EU Streit project.
