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)
