World Cocoa Foundation to bring technology to Indonesia's cocoa farmers

摘要

The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and ACDI/VOCA, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization, are launching an agricultural development initiative in Indonesia called the Cocoa Innovations Project. The project aims to improve cocoa farmers' incomes and efficiency through innovations in crop management and the application of information technology. WCF provided to ACDI/VOCA a $300,000 grant for the project. Key elements of the project include microfinance loans to cocoa farmers; use of mobile phone-based banking and agricultural extension systems; and community-based cocoa fermentation business models to improve the quality of farmers' cocoa.