Social projects
Project Macuro
Location: Macuro, Gulf of Paria, Sucre State, Venezuela
Population: 2000
Sources of income: fishing and cocoa cultivation and minimal and reduced trade in everyday food
Cocoa farmers: approx. 40 families
Size of the plantations: 300m2 - 10ha
Productivity cocoa in kg/ha: 4000
Project content for Macuro by Maya Munay:
- direct, fair and sustainable cultivation of cocoa
- Improving the quality of life of cocoa farmers and the village community
- financial, technical support, as well as transfer of know-how
- Increasing the quality of cocoa beans and productivity of the trees
- Paying the highest market prices to farmers
- 7-10% of proceeds flow back into sustainable community projects
- 1111 Plant trees in the first step (cocoa, banana, apamate trees, as well as yucca, occumo, beans and possibly other fruit trees)