Until 2016, more than 45,000 cocoa farmers in Ghana will receive additional support in improving their agricultural, social and environmental farming practices aiming at more than doubling productivity yield and increasing farm family income considerably.
The Lindt & Sprungli farming programme will include the introduction of a detailed farm mapping, a complete farmer ‘professionalisation’ training package and improved planting material through farmer-led nurseries.
The farmers will have access to credit for necessary planting appliances in newly set up farm shops. In each district, if not already in place, a Village Resource Centre will be installed. In 2012, already 8,000 farmers benefited from a pilot programme, followed by 15,000 farmers joining the programme in the season 2013/2014, with an additional 25,000 farmers to follow over the three subsequent years.
By 2016, Lindt & Sprungli plans to have the training programme completed for all farmers in Ghana that deliver cocoa in the framework of the special purchasing model of Lindt & Sprungli.
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