What about the future?
Kaoka guarantees a price about 40% superior to the best prices in the conventional market, as well as a minimum price when market is unfavorable.
Farmers are thus secured to sell their entire cocoa production at a price that gives value to their work.
Cecab stands for Cooperative of Organic Cocoa Export (Cooperativa de Exportação de Cacao Biologico). CECAB is federating 37 stallholders’ farmers associations i.e. more than 2051 families. This represents approximately 15% of the total rural population of São Tomé & Principe.
Nowadays, CECAB has become the main exporter of the archipelago..