Cocoa Cultivation at Cantagalo Farms

Agrícola Cantagalo´s production of cocoa reached its highest levels in 1994/1995, that is, 1930 tons (equivalent to 128,681 arrobas). It is important to emphasize that Cantagalo won more than once "Cocoa Producer of the Year" prize, bestowed by CEPLAC (Executive Commission of the Plan for Cocoa Farming). Throughout the 80's until the mid-90´s, three farms (Cantagalo, Angola and Altamira) almost always exceeded an average productivity of 100 arrobas per hectare.

Current Goals

The estimated cocoa production of the current harvest is approximately 1,350 tons (90,000 arrobas meaning that we are reaching the average productivity of 63 arrobas per hectare, results obtained by a well trained and extremely motivated team. In the coming five years we shall reach the productivity of 80 arrobas per hectare, thus taking our production to approximately 2,145 tons (143,000 'arrobas'). Our goal is to reach, within seven years, a productivity of 100 'arrobas' per hectare, with a total production of about 2,670 tons, equivalent to 178,000 arrobas.