The Programme which started in 2014, and expanded in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) in 2017, is helping to turn around Samoa’s cocoa export industry with yields at the farms participating in it doubling since its inception.
In 2014, average cocoa yields at the participating farms in Samoa were at 150kg, and as a result of the Programme, are now at 300kg per hectare of dried cocoa bean, with exports doubling from 15 tonnes to 30 tonnes per year, and 400 growers applying new growing and post-harvest techniques on their farms.
