Madang Cocoa Solutions

We are what we eat that we also need to know where  what we comes from. Cocoa production mostly  come from small holder farmers needed on rural Societies  abd my Cooperative  cocoa  no exception. 

My solutions  is to develop a Digitized  system  enabling  transparency  and strong  structures that  is linked to the Cocoa value  chain. The proposed solution is advocating for these  inclusion in our current story.

My Middle Ramu Cooperative Society was liberated as the Middle Ramu District  Cooperative Society here Madang  Province  of Papua New Guinea.  We are linking  sone Cooperatives  in the province therefore our solutions  is now The Madang Cocoa Solutions  Project to deliver this Cocoa value  chain  embracing  Digitized  Cocoa Economy. Inclusively  farmers are linked and empowered in the Digitized  Systems that will develop portals to be transparent by actors also  adopting the required standards of quality, financial,  internal and external  control systems hence creating a cocoa story that should create enabling opportunities in the cocoa economy.  Stakeholders  that are connected  to us should know our story and  be part  of our Cocoa  family  embracing on standards adopted locally and globally. Climate  Smart  farming systems  is one if those  standards that we have adopted  and  needed certification.

From  where we  are from  our previous engagement and history we are  growing our cocoa industry  to be a revolutionslised  platform from the currently  system  that do not portray  our standing  with our stakeholders. 

Our current  system  needed to be upgraded and strengthened  adopting the required  standards  to boost moral of my farmers and like minded  partners who we csn join hands to understand  each other for  a win win envionment  to all actors  on the cocoa industry.

from this solution we will be Globalized to be empowed  to improve on for  better  farming systems  identifying  opportunities  for scaling  from subsistance to literally globalized  systems through communication, computer literacy, data collation and  compiling, interactions  and learning, collaborating  and standing together  as a global family.  From our solution in this write up we be organically certified  to the Standards of the certification. We are practicing  organic  farming but not certified.

The Growth solution is projected and seen an intervention more practically taken  for the benefactors  to be part  of the solutions  developed  from  respective  portals of the system.

Thr Middle Ramu Cooperative Society (MRCS) originates  from the Ramu river, inaccessible  by viechle  driven road. The only travel route is to and fro along the Ramu river to nearest road  accessed to our Madang town where  there iscacsea port.

This Growth type Madang Cocoa Solutions optimizes Solutions to advocate on poverty issues enhancing  systems empowering  the benefactors  from subsistence  to globalized  systems through the Digitized  world

The project is not only to serve Middle Ramu Cooperative Society,  other linked Cooperatives  in each Distrtct  of the  Madang province are networked to the Digitised  solution.

The Digitized solution to be developed here incorporates portfolios  transparently through SOLVE  linkages that is compatible  and adopted  to us as the Proponents.

The Madang Cocoa Solution is developed embracing on these outcomes;

1. Transparency  within Middle Ramu Cooperative Society corporate governance, the management,  the operations  and the  Cocoa Value  Chain System that is to be developed.

2. Data input is traceable for tracking and timely delivery of goods and services.

 3.Developing a financial  system that that can be easily built into operating systems  that is accessible.

 4. Certification  standards adopted for strengthening  with control systems.

 5. Introducing savings, building cash assets  for farmers future  security borrowing. 

6.  Farm records  are progressively updated  for inclusive  participation.

7. Zooming , google call and  conducting meetings

8. Reports are timely  done for the updated  records.

These outcomes then empowers the local farmers to  increase house hood assets that  in turn increases likelihood secuirty leading sustainable  living  standards.

Our farmers needed to come of age to adopt to the changing  technologies through this innovation. 

The Cooperative Society Management and  Governance systems  is revolutionalised allowing the Society to be effectively manage the operations of the Society. 

The implementation of digital solutions is seen  to help many  streamline and improve  processes from the farm to the market. With challenges relate to data collection, productivity, traceability or access to finance, it is important that we select and identify the right digital tools that match these needs, and the right partners to implement them. The following are principles  needed to be adopted;

1. Understand what web digitalisation can do for Cooperative Societies and the farmers
2. Use data and digital tools to improve cocoa farming practices
3. Improve internal processes by using digital tools
4. Increase traceability by joining blockchain initiatives
5. Use digital tools to increase access to financial services
6. Increase market attractiveness through digital experiences
7. Monitor and improve quality with digital support
8. Use digital marketplaces to optimize marketing
9. Connect with organisations that help  embark on our digitalisation 
10. Use Digitized  tools to identify and manage natural disaster and impacts.

The above web site principles needed to be develoed to prepare  ourselves  from our current  base level  of operating scaling  up to standards required.

MRCS is the Middle Ramu District  Cooperative Society. Because the District  is geographical  denied since there  are no roads accept  the use of the Ramu River, a Digitized solution will be of convenient  from our  current service  reach.

The Distrtct  has  4 Local level Governments but we have been engagrd with two LLGs where Cocoa  geographically  adopts  well. The two are Arabaka and Josephstaal  LLGs.

We have registered members in the two LLGs that we serve with mobilizing  cocoa stock  to our central  shed  in Madang Town. From there the stock is sorted from where the stock is  assessed, inspected, fumigated meeting export standards  before  shipped  out to contract  buyers overseas.From our capacity  we export 240 bags per month.

Income earned from this cocoa is saved in Village  Savings  Banks for future financial obligations. A local scheme  develoed to provide  the service  of saving.

The families from the two LLGs depend  entirety on the Society  for their financial  obligations.

We provide  extension services in training, maintained fossil fuel generated energy for drying cocoa, supporting in bank loan applcations and dissemination  of farm management husbandry  practices.

We also network with parthers  establishing partnerships  with World vision, Department  of Agriculture and livestock  and the Cocoa Board  of PNG in  the Productive  Partnerships in Agriculture Program ( PPAP) from 2016 to 2019.

From this upscaling  activities  we continued  supporting  the registered  600 families in  Training, marketing. We also  have a team of casual bud graters that support  other  families  in the Cocoa Diversification  Program  with nursery  developments  and bud grafting  cocoa clones.

As a Cooperative we are acces to local communities with issues  like effects  of climate  change etc. We are moreless a link between our local Communities  to the outside  world.

From the two LLGs, the Arabaka  is faced with inland flooding of the Ramu river. That  flooding has impacts  to the  social well being of the people especially with food insecurity.

 The river  floods over the banks reaching food gardens, homes snd cash crops. These  leave behind food  insecurity and impacts  to the whole livelihood  status quo of families. The  Middle Ramu Cooperative Society  had embraced  on various incentives  however  not on a scale to move us forward  due to  short  falls and  isolation.

The Society plays a linkage role  to the outside  world  highlighting the very vulnerable  challenges the communities  are faced with. The Health and Education issues, diseases  frequency, the environmental situations, food insecurity  are addressed  t9 be addressed. Should this Solution is apprioved,  a base line  will be carried out giving a clear  picture to underlining issues solutions.

Developing this web site obviously creates opportunities at the same time measuring indicators on how far the communities have progressed  arriving towards achieving targets of UN respective Sustainable  Development  Goals in this geographical  locations. 

The Middle Ramu Cooperative Society has always been self  supportive addressing  these Socio economic issues impacting members and non members.

Other emerging and existing Cooperstives are networked  into our database for  inclusion  in the Digitized  economy.

The Middle Ramu District 's Arabaka LLG is located along the Ramu river  of which  this Middle Ramu Cooperative Society  was formed. The Society  originates  from the middle section of the Ramu river while the upper section in the Usino Bundi District  and lower Ramu  river in the Bogia Distrtct. 

My team had been  exporting  cocoa to Europe and Asia until   the out break of Cocoa Pod Borer that scaled down our operations. We therefore  are familiar  with the procedures  of Cocoa  exporting  in the Cocoa value chain. As such we have been engaged with;

1. Agree on the terms of payment with your buyer
2. Agree on delivery terms with our buyer
3. Make clear agreements on export insurance
4. Drafting contracts
5. Have your export documentation.
6. Well informed on import customs procedures
7. Invest in good-quality packaging and transportation
8. Organise transport and logistics efficiently
9. Knowing  our rights as a cocoa 
10. Negotiating payments and dealing with overseas currency  transactions and budgets.. 

How ever we were operating through  brokers in Australia.

My team had been struggling  because of lack of improved  systems  equipped  with technology  that can strengthened us to move over  the barriers. We are  at times  impaired  and stucked to move forward.

As locals  we have the ownership  obligations and drive to move forward on our own however we needed like minded  stakeholders to empower and  build capacity  to upscale  from our current bbase level  in the digitized cocoa economy.

 We have sustained eith struggles  however had not given up as we have this strong  driven  will power that motivate  us to support our members who are registered  and look forward to us for supporting them.

Originating  from a remote  geographical location is challenging however experienced a norm to us as we have delivered  global contracts  on a monthly  basis while exporting  cocoa. Now with the investment  through the PPAP, we needed innovative  solutions to bring us forward meeting standards  of local  and globalization  within  the industry perceptions.

Having taking  ownership  of our aspirations since  2008, we have the potentials  within our cultural values and inspired  from our endeavors however the effectiveness of our endeavors to our members and stakeholders at large has been dragged due to lack of empowerment  from such  solutions applying for.

This proposed solutions when honored by MIT SOLVE opens the opportunities that  are not identified  and  discovered. We have resources  like  rich and fertile  Soils, rivers and lakes that  naturally  support us. We are also  mindful  of climate  crisis that these solutions  give opportunities  to deliver mitigation  programs. 

Having  a team  of educated  Staff of 4 female  and  5 male employed who has the local knowledge and stint globally in our cocoa  export business, the team can adopt to innovation from our solutions from training, coaching and mentoring. The culture  of our business  is a strength  to us to easily adopt to our proposed  solutions from our globalization   stint.

Cooperatives  are formed by primary  producers that needed to be rised up  to the next level  to be exposed to innovative  solutions  like the Digitised  world.

A more transparent and inclusive  cocoa value chain needed to be developed using digitized  tools  to Digitize  the Cocoa Economy  from physical  farm production  records, tracking and tracing, storing, transportation, pricing certifications to a paper less system  that should  be available  to our stakeholders  when required.

The Middle Ramu Cooperative Society  was exporting  cocoa from 2008 to 2014, invested in 270 hectares with 170,000 cocoa clones in World  Bank  Program and needed effective monitoring the on going activities hence this Digitized Solutions replicate. These objectives rely the Digitized Solutions.

The Digitized  Systems enables  growth of which enables transparency, confidence, accuracy and  accessibility of information  to the Society, stakeholders  and members  when required.

Secured, concrete and accurate data is required for historical  reporting.

Currently the Society does not have a website and this solution shall develop the website  through from which data will be migrated and consumed.

A Digitised  Econony  is built not specifically  to cocoa alone  however migrated to other  sectors  with their own portals.

The solutions is cheap as for monitoring  purposes, drones and other  equipment are used for effective  tracking, tracking and movements minimizing risks.

The platforms  or strategies of MIT SOLVE are objectively  demonstrated  best tools used in identifying  solutions initially presented  for audience before  the solutions are accepted and rolled over.

My group, from a developing country with no policy in place  to support and strengthened Cooperative  Societies  like us, leaving us on our  own although seen a driving tool chanelling development in areas  like the Middle  Ramu District and Madang province.

The Middle Ramu  Distrtct is yet  reached  by road to main sea port. We travel to and fro through the use  of the Ramu River with our cargo to town warehouse  shed.

Climate Change caused inland  Ramu river floods over flows to the banks reaching Food gardens, education and health  institutions, filling drinking well water putting  people at high risks for movement  and access to clean water. Untimely flooding  from the climate  change effects is common disturbing gardening patterns that is controlled  by dry  and  wet season. This leaves  food insecurity issues a concerned.

Families are forced to migrate to urban areas  seeking better  lives in urban squatters. More socail  problems are arised.

Mitigating  systems improving food Security levels through  Climate  Smart  farmkng, stopping urban drifts, suppling clean  water, building mosquitoe  proof homes, generating  cash  from cocoa income needed to strengthened in minimizing  escalating  Climate  change issues.

This proposed  Madang  Cocoa Solutions shall deliver  these mitigating  activities.

 The benefactors  can adopt  this skills, innovation and  opportunities  created within the environment of the solutions for sustainability.

Web based data is concrete  and facts are loaded timely  and more secured and  reliable. Historical data  is relied  for accurate decisions.

The members  of the Society  have been aroused  through  the the World  Bank intervention  for  eradication of the Cocoa  Pod Borer  epidemic through "The Middle Ramu Cocoa Diversification and Marketing Project".  The project exited prematurely leaving behind programs of upscaling that MRCS  shouldered .

MIT SOLVE is invited  with  this concept  note from this  solution to rationalize through partnership  linkages.

 MIT SOLVE  advocates on UN SDGs of which within  the Cooperative  Society  envionment, the SDGs become guiding principles  integrated  in programs  of the Societies. Cooperatives like ours is members based who are cocoa producers that can be directly linked to measure their indicators of our progress measured against  targets  of the SDGSs.

In such geographical  area, the innovative  solutions gives opportunities to MIT SOLVE in  such settings as models to do research and recommendations  to be adopted to other similar  settings for similar solutions.

Such growth  stimulate opportunities  for stakeholders  and state agencies to intervine delivering  services  that are  not in existence. This solution triggers growth  prompting spin offs in Small, Micro to Medium Enterprise giving equal  opportunities  to girls, mothers  and youths.

The current gap after the PPAP project  left, there is a need for upscaling  of the project replicating the skills learnt  to other Aravaka LLG wards and the Josephstaal Local Level Government in the Middle Ramu District.

The Middle Ramu Cooperative Society (MRCS)  is the Proponent  of the  Madang Cocoa Solutions. MRCS  unlike  other Cooperatives  had beside  challenging environments had  been operating  in the space  of cocoa exporting  not experienced by indigenous  Madang.

We have also partnered  with stakeholders  in the  World  Bank and GoPNG funded PPAP program.

We are a model to other  Cooperatives  as we take courage  optimizing  on solutions to our challenges. It is therfore we are  now leading Cooperatives  through out Madang  Province in the proposed  Digitized Cocoa Econony  that is being proposed.

This solution if it is developed to fully operational, MRCS will be the core partner with  MIT SOLVE. The innovation will then migrated  to other  Cooperatives  that  hold hands with us. From this Digitized  economy, a Madang  based Digitized  Cocoa  Econony  will be developed linking  Cooperatives  and  their members. 

Madang  province  will  be  the province  linking all Cocoa farmers  in the Digitized  world  with improved structures  delivering from improved standards  to the next  level inviting overseas  chocolate  makers  to establish  cocoa factory  in Madang.

Should we  have Cocoa factory  built there  is total  transparency  with  internal  control systems for monitoring; The control  system embraces;

1. Production - production  comming from respective  Distrtct  from respective  Cooperative and respective  farmer is traced . 

2. Quality- Quality  of the productions of the Cocoa for processing.

3. Price  - price information is  transferred to farmers.

4.  Data is progressively  updated  in a timely manner to all Districts.

5. Financial  services-  Village Banks  are established at Farmers  accessibility for savings. These groups  are  linked to commercial  banks for  banks for savings.

6. Farmer's  access to bank loans  is easily negotiated with with the  banks.

7. Government  tax, derivation  and  levies  are closely  monitored.

8. Farmers  feel the taste  of their  own cocoa chocolat bars. ice creams products and beverages .

My solution is innovative  as it leads provide  information on market and share analysis,  Growth  trends and  forecasts.

Develops operations of the major segments including;

1.Cocoa Bean Production 

2. Sourcing  and  Trading

3.Markerting

4.Procesing

5. Manufacturing

 6.Distributons and retailing to consumers.

This is an impact solution that influence and triggers  opportunities and open corridors for  a sectoral  package building structures  to minimize workload  to be more  strategic moving the Society, stakeholders  and Cocoa  farmers  forward.

We  have  learnt from  our experience as Cocoa exporters  that  the level of communication, the illiterate  we are in the Global trading we have been denied contract  value. The price  of cocoa offered to us was no where close  to leveraging  our competitors  on the Cocoa stock purchase. Our Competitors  were paying  higher price  than contract  price  offered to us. That suppressed  us to delivering  one FCL Container. Members were selling to companies  offering high price.

This is lack of transparency  and our  illiteracy  because  of the system  we were  trading  with.

The Digitized  Cocoa econony to be developed has the value within the Cocoa vakye chain.

We had no transparency in our operations from when we started in 2008 until today that  impacted  us in;

1. Lacking the capacity  to effectively comuincate with stakeholders.

2.  Cannot match the level of communications and  langauge used 

3. Were denied contract value offered to us then the contract  value offered to our brokers.

4. The manufactured  products out of our Cocoa were not known to us.

5. The quality story  of those  manufactured  cocja products was not known to us.

6.We had no access  to global prices  of cocoa auctioned at Life and New.  York transferred  to us.

7.locally we are  still on conventional  systems  however compared  globally thr Digitized  economy is now a global  movement  going more popular.

8. High risks  of the conventional  systems  especially  with ribbing.

9.We cannot even go closer to matching the  UN SDGs from our current  conventional systems.

10. Us as a Cooperative needed to rise  from years of being suppressed  and missed  opportunities  that  come our  way. We can also  MIT SOLVE  opportunity  like  I missed  the one last  year 2023.

11. Missed opportunities  locally  and Globally for partnetship linkages.

12. Global  certification  standards are not being adopted like Organic  and  Fair trade  certifications.

14.lack  Global  climate  change mitigation  and resilience  programs.

The logframe of the description of my solutions  highlighting  objectives  to the areas mentioned above, the qualitative  and quantitative  indicators  along with  the risks  can Cleary  come to analyze  where we are and  where we should  be.

It is projected that we are going miles  from  the innovative solutions are applying here for  inclusion.

What the Digitization  can do for  the members  of the Society  who rural  are farmers;

1. Digitized  Solutions  on farm mapping identifying farm  area, production  output and  farm descriptions.

2. Provide  stakeholders  like buyers thr information on production, origion that  may encourage  buyers to purchase  from specific  small suppliers.

Linking  of producers and buyers information on products and  origion.

2.Improve Cocoa Farming  practices 

Specific tools helping improve farm productivity and profitability. Thus information helps  in farm management,  weather information. 

3. Internal  Processes using Digital  tools

Enhance  Internal processes and monitoring and monitoring  by collecting data and monitoring  farm activities and internal management systems  in connecting  with producer  groups and sales.

4. Increased  traceability using Block Chain.

By using block chain technology tool, it increases accountability, transparency and traceability along the supply  chain. An open system  for  data  tracking and storage, meaning that it records transactions in a verifiable and permanent way.

Each actor  in the value chain joins the block chain technology  for  effective traceability and transparency including  profit  margins from farms end. Lowers risks and strength and increase  chances  of producers  for  loans.

Consumers  profit  because they are  better informed, the journey, origion and sustainability of their products.

5. Increases  chances  of their  financial  services.

Accessing  financial services is often challenging for  farmers. Risks related to production,  low financial  literary and transportation costs are seen obstacles to financial  services vti cocoa  farmers. These obstacles  are minimized through the use of digital  tools.

From the Middle  Ramu Cooperative  Society  mission statement" Increase  House hold  Assests from Incomes received from  Sustainable  Farming  Systems  in a preserved  and  Conserved  Biodiversity"

From our Mission  Statement  our goals are measured  in line with  the UN SDGs. 

1. Poverty  Incidence 

Families secured  financially for  nutritive  diets. Therefore  investing  on Agriculture  leads  to ending  poverty 

2.  Zero Hunger 

 Linking the small  holders into income generating  streams and introducing  innovative solutions giving  them opportunity  to participate in the economy  supporting themselves.  Effective  linking  and networking  leaves  no one behind  and  that  is where our  digitalisation solution is required.

3.Good Health  & Well  Being 

Agriculture  plays  a key role in preventing diseases and improving  health. Better farms  improve family  health  ability to produce, purchase and consume more food with essential  nutrients

4. Good Education.

Lack of  access  to nutritive  food prevents students  from concentrating during  class thriving  accedemically. By boosting rural  income, more children access and take  full advantage education. 

5. Gender  Equity

Women involvement  in the sale of produce  at the markets,  they gain  financial  independence to Agriculture  solutions locally. 

Our women/mothers have maternal  rights over land that  gives them the cultural  authority  for  Agriculture investment through  Climate  Smart  farming systems.

7. Clean  Water & Sanitation 

Rural farmers  have the  potential  to protect and  manage water resources  at low cost.

The SDGs can be aligned  into logframe for effective  coordination, monitoring delivering outcomes. This is where we can drive the global  UN SDGs forward progressively achieving our targets.

The introduction  of Digitized tools, monitoring  Portals, tracking of the Value Chain and physical monitoring of project activities on a regular  basis are new to my organization. However the following  are some technologies  that  I feel compatible  to our  Solutions;

1. Block Chain. 

A tool that  can decentralize distributed  ledger  or data  and stories that record the ownership  of digital  assets.

Any data  stored  or block chain is insbne to be modified making the technology legitimate disrupter  for industries like payments,cyber security and health  care.

Used more in;

- fraud, financing, terrorism  and money laundry.

- intellectual  property  rights.

- Education services 

- Financial  Markets

- Smart  contracts.

2. Cloud Computing.

In the delivery of computing services including servers, storage, database, networking, software,analytic  and  intelligence over internet.  

The Cloyd move faster, innovation, flexible, resource  and  economic  side of scale.

3. Artifical  Intelligence 

This soft ware is used by IT Manager in business analyst who would understand how AI can be successfully  implemented.  It is good to understand how AI works before  deciding  the software.

4.Internet of things.

Refers to collective network of conected  devices and technology that  facilitate communication between devices and the cloud as well as devices  themselves.

- Data collection, monitoring and storing  is done digitally using  drones, satellites or sensors.

There are other IT technologies needed to be identified  before selecting  which IT soft ware is applicable.

5. Mobile  

Mobiles  are  commonly  used for  communication and  applicable  with  simpliest forms  that  are now available and  very handy  to communicate.

The Society had been operstung since 2008. Staff  have been employed and  left . Currently we have  me (Pius Mimpi) as the Manager, one Operations,  Field  Coordinator , one Accountant and Administration,  one logistics  Clerk and 3 Field  extension  officers.  We have casuals seven.

These employees at times are laid off and re employed from peak  times.

Employment  is open both to male and female.Our proposition is 4 female  and five  male staff. We create a lot of opportunities  for casual  work  like soils filling in our cocoa nursery work  where women are engaged. 

Since 2008, after  obtaining  our legal Cooperative  Society certificate, we formalized  our  systems holding meetings  and we started. We then  exported  our cocoa with  first 8 slings of 25 bags  to Germany through   broker , Andreas  Lombardozzi  of African Pacific,  Australia  whom I meet in 2007 from a trade  workshop in Bali, Indonesia. 

External  Intervention  was the PGEP of which  Andreas  Lombardozzi  was the mentor  and  the PPAP supported by GoPNG and World  Bank  purposely toeradicate the Cocoa Pod  Borer in PNG. Through  that  program, we field  Planted 120,000 grafted  cocoa clones from 600 family as model plots.

MIT SOLVE mission  is seen human  centered  of which my  Society embraces  with shared  values.

Originating from a remote geographical  denied envionment, we initiated the Middle  Ramu Cooperative  Society. The over all mission of the Society is to " Increase  House hold Assets from income generating activities  from a conserved  and protected natural envionment."

To arrive  at our mission  cocoa farming  was centralized  forcing me to resigned  from being employed as Agriculture  officer  with the Government of PNG to support the Middle Ramu Cooperative Society. 

The Society created  opportunity generating income  from exporting  cocoa to Europe and  Asia  bringing in the required cash.  Our structures  collapsed in 2014 from the attack  of the Cocoa Pod Borer in the Country and  we only supported our farmers  locally.

We are from a remote  setting however being strongly  motivated by our culture of achieving  goals, that embraced  us to sustain  our operations. Although  prices  offered  were not conducive  as we were trading through  brokers, our farmers sold at what price  offered as that  was the only hope to pay  for education, Health  and other  basic  like clothes etc was through  thrvsale of cocoa. 

Our diversity as a Society  stands from our prominence  being the only producer  Cooperative  invloved on the exporting of Cocoa  abroad.

We established relations with African Pacific  and Holland  Commodoties  of Australia, the two companies  were our brokers. 

Our partnership  relationship with World  Vision for  the World  Bank and GoPNG  also had impact  on us strengthening  us to be invloved  in the  implementation of the World  Bank Project.

The Society had come this far  putting  farmers first on our agenda as their socio economic obligations  is our upmost. We provide  transport  from out Board motor  along the  Ramu river  and owns  a truck  that delivers delivering  cargo to Central  ware shed.

We support families  who  cannot afford  to send  their children  to higher learning  universities  or colleges, we subsidize fees and even  laptops to students. 

We are driven  by our vision  to reduced poverty through  economic  empowerment. We sweat to earn  to live for  better  tomorrow. That  is clearly stipulated  in our mission statement. Our vision,our mission  establishes  our direction in supporting  our farmers. 

We are here to adopt  to opportunities  for innovation  and game changing to get us forward more through stakeholder partnerships.

As a Cooperative Society, our core business on Agriculture  practices  farm production, processng  and marketing of cocoa. We endeavor to develop a sustainable  economy on the Cocoa  industry both Locally abd abroad. 

Originating  from a developing  country,  we are a model as Cooperative  Society  movement  formed  liberally  by people with common interest. My Cooperative  Society is Agriculture  based involved in the the cocoa cash economy  since 2008.

Farmers are supported with Cocoa Diversification and  expansion  programs, training  for cocoa farms husbandry and agronomy aspects into post  harvest  management systems, processng  and marketing.

Our  incentives has promoted Authorities  at  the PNG Cocoa Board, Department of Agriculture  and World  Bank into the world  bank  program  in cocoa investment through  the Productive Partnership  on Agriculture  Program (PPAP).

Through  this  intervention  an investment  of 270 cocoa clones planted  are now bearing  increasing  production to 1000 to 1500 tons annually. With  this increased  volume  of Cocoa we are also  onto plans  of cocoa down stream processing. 

We have been invited  by  Bear millls Foodtech GmbH of Germany  to process our beans  to Cocoa liquor. Our downstream  processing  plan  should evantuate  after building  capacity  through  the Digitised  technology  that  now we  are proposing.

Being the pioneer  Cooperative  Society we delivery programs  supporting rural communities, our vision to minimize poverty  and that  is our driving  factor. Guided by our traits of honest, transparent,  strongly motivated  and God fearing, we for most prioritise  our rural communities. Rural  Communities  should  be given opportunities  to come out from their remoteness and  equally  participate in empowering  themselves  from the opportunities we are offering.

The Sociey  is certified  by the Cocoa  Board  of PNG with licenses that enables  us at foor step purchase of farm produce. The Society  then freight  the stock to our main shed for processing  and exporting. Decentralized warehouse sheds are also licensed  and fumigated  for local inspections and accepting  the beans. Payment  made when double  check  on town  after  freightung.

Establish  loyalty and trust  from members is very important. Members trust  the Cooperative System  inorder to support the Cooperative  Society taking part  to the Operations towards the mission and vision  of the Society.

The mission of this solution  is develop a system  building  confidence  to the members  of my Society  and from the success, it is replicated to other  Cooperatives  in  seven  Districts  of Madang Province.

The  Sociey  being  empowered develops the Digitized  cocoa  economy  throughout  Madang Province  through Madang Cocoa Solutions.

From the Digitised  Cocoa Solutions, each Distrtct  is given target  to increase  production qualifying for  a mini  cocoa  downstream  processing  factory  to process cocoa liquor.

With  the current cocoa bean selling at US 10,000 per tone beans, cocoa liquor  price  will be higher.

My  Society  becomes the model  to establish  this mini cocoa factory  processing at 300kg/ hour processing  201.6 tons of cocoa bean and 161.28 tons of cocoa  liquor. 

The business spreads and links SME's on the local  economy.

SME' to be contracted  include;

- Transportation- to freight  cocoa stock for processing.

- builders  contracted  to build warehouse sheds  and  tools sheds.

- Cocoa dryer contractors contracted  to hold cocoa  dryers

- An accountant  or a local  accounting  SME does the accounting  work  for  all the SME.

- A financial  SME  provide  the services  of Village  Banking.