Demonstration Farm

The Cocoa Farming Future Initiative (CFFI) wants to provide assistance to the cocoa farmer community of Grenada. One way of reaching this goal is by setting up a demonstration farm.

The farm was made available to us thanks to the Grenada Cocoa Association (GCA). The almost 4 acres are ideally located, next to the future chocolate factory in Victoria, St-marks, Grenada (for exact location type 12.188044, -61.701185 in googlemap). The farm will enable to run workshops with farmers and will be a vitrine for visitors, promoting agriculture.

In the future, the farm will display the existing cocoa species of Grenada (in the link go to location (left margin) and scroll to Grenada, you will learn about the various characteristics of the species) and especially those of higher economical value for farmers, the various species of windbreakers at the farm's hedge, the various kind of shade trees, and hopefully animals to show the advantage of mix-farming.

On the farm, due to low maintenance practice, there is an excess in tree grow. This leads to high level of humidity providing the conditions for pests and diseases to attack the cocoa trees. Thus, the preliminary work consists in cleaning the land.

 

Yours,

Vincent