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The value chain
A cocoa bean passes through many hands before it becomes chocolate: the nursery that raised the tree, the farmer who harvested the pod, the fermentary that built the flavour, the buyer, the truck, the exporter, the grinder. Each stage below is a door into the organisations doing that work in Liberia today.
Seeds, fertiliser, crop protection and farm tools.
Explore stageImproved-variety seedlings and grafting services.
Explore stageSmallholder farms and the cooperatives that organise them.
Explore stageLicensed buying agents and village collection points.
Explore stageCentral fermentaries, drying and primary processing.
Explore stageLACRA-licensed exporters and trading houses.
Explore stageLocal grinding, couverture and craft chocolate.
Explore stageHaulage, warehousing and port handling.
Explore stageWorking-capital lenders, VSLAs and insurers.
Explore stageCertification bodies, QC labs and grading.
Explore stageDryers, fermentation boxes, ag-tech and traceability tools.
Explore stageDevelopment programmes, extension and research.
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