CONACADO:
Confederación Nacional de Cacao cultores Dominicanos
- 7,980 smallholder cocoa farmers
- Located all over the north eastern and central areas of the Dominican Republic
- Established in 1988
- Partners with Cafédirect since 2002
Cocoa from CONACADO goes into our delicious Cocodirect Drinking Chocolate
did you know?
Cocoa accounts for 90% of CONACADO farmers’ income
To find out how premiums from Cafédirect have benefitted CONACADO farmers click here
“We need to take care of the whole body of Conacado. And with knowledge acquired across the whole organisation, only then we can really produce change!”
Cirilo Alcantara, President of CONACADO talks about sharing the knowledge from a Cafédirect training workshop he attended in January 2007
Beato Guillermo,
Cocoa farmer, and president of Yamasa Bloque 2, one of the member groups of CONACADO. Beato says he was almost ‘born with cacao’ and loves farming it. He says, “above all, I like improving the quality”