🍫Replantation & Rehabilitation

Farm Replantation and Renovation (R&R) is an opportunity to reshape farming systems, fight disease, intensify production and adopt climate-smart practices, such as adding shade trees or improving water management. With the appropriate set of practices in place, newly planted trees will produce higher and more sustainable yields, which help reduce the likelihood that farmers will seek additional land on which to grow cocoa. In some cases, R&R may incentivize farmers to diversity the crops that they grow, thereby generating additional revenue and achieving household income.

Figure 1: Projected cash-flow and volume of cocoa produced by a portfolio of 10,000 farmers involved in replanting activities.

Several models done at farm level demonstrate that with innovative financing, good quality planting materials and proper practices, cocoa farming can be profitable even for smallholders.