Cocoa Farming Project

Cocoa Farming Project to Fund Operations

vision for the Underprivileged

our project approach

Through our agriculture projects, we plan to supply food, school resources, and materials, but we need your support.

MWAHEO is dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty by providing quality education to underprivileged communities. We want to utilize sustainable cocoa farming projects to fund our operations while engaging students, youth, and the wider community in educational initiatives aimed at self-reliance and empowerment to avoid dangerous ways of moving overseas to seek greener pastures.

Food

We aim to provide food for our underprivileged community and also, vocational training for some of our students through various agriculture projects that they have grown used to. We cannot count solely on paper certificates and degrees, as employment is not a guarantee.

Resources

One of our primary targets is to provide school materials, tools, and infrastructural facilities as they progress in their studies.

technology

To ensure educational equity, we plan on intensifying and intentionally biasing towards hands-on vocational training. This may not be visible or apparent now, but it is included in our five-year plan. We are banking on your generous assistance to put structures in place. Please click on our donation button and contribute. You will see how your gift is changing lives. Thank you.

Cocoa Farming

The Cocoa beans are fermented for about 5 days. Then comes the second manual work of removing the pith strands and massaging the beans to ensure they are separated. In the meantime, mats made of Palm branches are spread over well-placed support beams to hold the mats steady. The entire thing is then covered with palm branches to prevent heat loss and especially rain since the object here is to dry the beans. Others use tarpaulin, as shown below.

Drying Cocoa Seeds

Creative Director

Staying close by is essential so that the required sunshine is attained. Also, to ensure a hurried cover-up in case of rain. This method seems tedious since it warrants that the Cocoa beans will have to be hauled inside each evening only to be brought back the next day.

Cocoa Harvesting

Leader Designer

To every farmer, harvesting is a joyous moment, although equally labor-intensive. I remember we carried baskets to pick up the haphazardly plucked pods when I was young. We then brought them to a central location, assembled in one colossal mound. Rarely does one farmer begin shelling the pods without a form of communal labor. Farmer A, for instance, will invite all the other farmers and their families to come and help. The beneficial farmer’s responsibility that day would be to prepare food and beverages. Intermittent breaks in the work are arranged so participants can eat well before continuing work. It is at this time that you hear all types of conversation. Children learn from adult gossip and various storytelling. The youth may attract admonishments from adults when they exhibit laziness or try to interject in adult conversations.

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Cocoa is also one of the plants that has all its parts used in one form or the others.

Chocolate is made from Cocoa

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Did you know there is cocoa chocolate, cocoa soft drinks, cocoa soap, and other derivatives of cocoa? Check back, as we will try to update the content so that you can fully understand.

Ghana is intensifying research into more uses for cocoa. The roots, barks, and leaves have medicinal uses and are also used as fertilizer. The dry pods are used similarly to firewood. The fresh seeds are sweet and succulent, although the inner seed has a slightly bitter taste.

Maintenance

This hardworking lady seems to be removing the seeds and readying them for the much-needed fermentation before drying them into cocoa beans that are crushed to make chocolate. It is evident, that there is a huge vocational fields for our graduating students who choose to enter into farming.