Nine women, one full container
A collective that started with nine growers now settles a 12.5 MT container of its own each season.
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Zorzor Women's Cocoa Collective
County cooperativeZorzor · Lofa County
320 women growers. One fermentation centre. First container booked.
A women-led collective that moved from roadside heap fermentation to a shared centre with drying tables and a lot-code book. 100% of member farms GPS-mapped. First full export container booked for the coming main crop.
- farmers
- 320
- farmers
- MT capacity / yr
- 150
- MT capacity / yr
- cooperatives in Lofa
- 3
- cooperatives in Lofa
Who runs it
The executive committee
Elected officers of Zorzor Women's Cocoa Collective. Reach any of them directly - a cooperative is people, and these are the people.
Yassah Mulbah
President
Founded the collective with nine women in 2019; it now settles a full container a season.
Korpo Flomo
Secretary
Holds the membership roll and the fermentation roster.
What changed
Success stories
What working as one cooperative has actually done for the members of Zorzor Women's Cocoa Collective.
In their words
Members and buyers on Zorzor Women's Cocoa Collective
We were a savings club that farmed. Now buyers come to Zorzor asking for us by name.
From the store
Products & services
Everything Zorzor Women's Cocoa Collective sells or offers, listed on the cluster catalogue.
Open right now
On the marketplace
Live buy and sell listings Zorzor Women's Cocoa Collective has posted to the cluster's B2B board.
Ways in
Opportunities at this cooperative
Tenders, trainings, grants and partnerships open through Zorzor Women's Cocoa Collective.
Nothing open here right now - the cluster board carries opportunities from every member.
The rest of the cluster
2 other cooperatives in Lofa, and the rest of the belt below.
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Lofa Kissi Cocoa Cooperative
Border-country growers keeping Liberian beans Liberian.
- founded
- 2015
- founded
- farmers
- 980
- farmers
- MT / yr
- 610
- MT / yr
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Voinjama Highland Growers
Upper Lofa's oldest union, rebuilt after the border years.
- founded
- 2013
- founded
- farmers
- 1,100
- farmers
- MT / yr
- 720
- MT / yr
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Belle Cocoa Farmers Union
Bringing Gbarpolu's forest farms into one selling group.
- founded
- 2016
- founded
- farmers
- 720
- farmers
- MT / yr
- 410
- MT / yr
FarmingCooperative
Bong Range Cocoa Growers
Old farms coming back to life around Gbarnga.
- founded
- 2012
- founded
- farmers
- 640
- farmers
- MT / yr
- 380
- MT / yr
FarmingCooperative
Fish Town Cocoa Collective
The youngest cooperative in the cluster, and the furthest south.
- founded
- 2021
- founded
- farmers
- 310
- farmers
- MT / yr
- 165
- MT / yr
FarmingCooperative
Gbehlay Farmers Union
Ganta-corridor growers pooling harvests for honest weights.
- founded
- 2017
- founded
- farmers
- 860
- farmers
- MT / yr
- 520
- MT / yr
FarmingCooperative
Konobo Growers Cooperative
South-eastern volume finding its way to the Freeport.
- founded
- 2018
- founded
- farmers
- 540
- farmers
- MT / yr
- 300
- MT / yr
Nimba Highlands Cocoa Cooperative
1,240 growers on the Nimba highlands, one fermentation discipline.
- founded
- 2014
- founded
- farmers
- 1,240
- farmers
- MT / yr
- 900
- MT / yr
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Suakoko Valley Cooperative
Seedlings and beans from the research-station valley.
- founded
- 2015
- founded
- farmers
- 980
- farmers
- MT / yr
- 640
- MT / yr
FarmingCooperative
Tappita Smallholder Alliance
Young alliance organising south-Nimba villages.
- founded
- 2020
- founded
- farmers
- 450
- farmers
- MT / yr
- 210
- MT / yr