Cocoa
East Africa cocoa is renowned for its deep chocolate flavour profile and technical qualities making it a favourite for both bean to bar chocolate makers and processors who use the quality to blend in other flavours. Farmers in Uganda grow a mix of hybrids with maraños (Brazil-Peru), amelonado (Brazil-Guyana) and Iquitos (Peru) origins.
In order to export significant volumes, we have developed expertise in reliable sourcing, standardisation, quality management and export and consider this a key offering as your counterparty of choice.
We are constantly striving to get cocoa growing in more areas of East Africa to reach more farmers and produce more of this quality product and are proud to have enabled the certification of thousands of farmers and be the largest exporter of organic cocoa in Uganda. Through this, we have seen significant changes to farm practices and family characteristics over the years and look forward to seeing constant improvement through the training that our committed field staff provide.
How we do what we do
We are proud of our cocoa process that puts farmers first and delivers the highest quality cocoa to you.
Our Locations
We promote cocoa growing in new areas of Uganda and East Africa and want to see more farming
households benefit from this incredible commodity.
Bundibugyo
Nestled between the Congo border along the Lamia river and the northern reaches of the formidable Rwenzori Mountains is Bundibugyo.
This is where our main cocoa activity is, working with more than 12,000 farmers. Farm diversification with Vanilla has been transformational and now over 4,000 farmers grow vanilla in this region alone.
As well as our main Bundibugyo factory, we have our smaller Bumati factory. Here we process organic certified or specialty cocoa which needs to be kept separate from conventional cocoa.
Beyond our farmer training and employment at our sites and stores we have built a town library, the only one in Bundibugyo and the surrounding districts. Read more here.
