Social projects

Project Macuro

Location: Macuro, on the Gulf of Paria, Sucre State, Venezuela

Population: 2000

Sources of income: fishing and cocoa cultivation and minimal and reduced trade in everyday foodstuffs

Cocoa farmers: about 40 families

Plantation size: 300m2 - 10ha

Cocoa productivity 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 and technical support, as well as the provision of know-how
  • Increasing the quality of cocoa beans and productivity of cocoa trees
  • Paying the highest market prices to farmers
  • 7-10% of proceeds are reinvested in sustainable community projects
  • Plant 1111 trees in the first step (cocoa, banana, apamate trees, as well as yucca, occumo, beans and possibly other fruit trees)