Our Key Sustainable Focus Elements
High
Farm-gate
prices
Currently we work with more than 1000 cocoa producers throughout Nicaragua. Some of them are particularly small (less than 1Ha) and can’t afford to invest in labor or in transport.
To be able to work with them we offer the benefit of collection at farm-gate. Our truck goes biweekly to the plantations to collect the cocoa in wet-mass so the producer doesn’t have to deal with the risk and the cost of post-harvest, and can focus on the management of their plantation. Furthermore, this enables us to control fermentation from the very beginning, hence improving the flavor development of the beans, and guaranteeing consistency and quality for our customers.
To mantain a sustainable model and encourage producers to continue cultivating fine cocoa instead of more productive trees of lower quality, we are paying our producers a premium price.
Producers receive payment for each kilo of dried cocoa despite being delivered in wet-mass. The price paid is NY stock exchange + 25%, which is among the highest price paid to producers in the world.
Cocoa is really making a difference in the lives of our producers.
EUDR-Ready: Deforestation-Free Cacao, Proven Plot by Plot
Ingemann is Nicaragua’s leading fine-cacao company, and our supply chain is ready for the EU Deforestation Regulation today. Every organic certified producer in our supply chain has been registered and checked, plot by plot, against the deforestation cutoff — with GPS-mapped plots verified against satellite imagery. For every shipment, we deliver the traceability data behind each lot, directly into the buyer’s Osapiens purchase order, so your due diligence statement rests on real evidence.
375
organic certified producers checked and compliant
150
conventional fine-cacao producers on the way to full compliance very soon
100%
lot-level traceability to the individual farm, every shipment
EUDR deadline: December 30, 2026 · Deforestation cutoff: December 31, 2020 · Partners: IMOCERT Latin America, Osapiens
Business training programs and Technical Assistance
To make sure that the producers make the most out of their plantations, we’ve created training programs free of charge:
ACADEMIA DE CACAO
The first one is Academia de Cacao, a technical training program of four modules designed to train the producer how to manage their trees (pruning, nutrition etc), their plantation and control pest and diseases.
PROFE
The other is The Profe Project, a business program focused on encouraging producers to have future plans, inventories, registers of costs and income. The purpose is to create increased awareness and better decision making. Both programs are followed up by in-field advisors who visit the producers daily.
FREE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Our technicians assist producers to implement Best Practices.
Partners to
facilitate access
to credit
We promote and develop training programs to Nicaraguan financial institutions to inform them about the cocoa sector in the country, the performance of our producers and the international market access we assure to them.
Through our trainings, financial institutions are encourage to provide access to credit to our producers and create unique and personalized financial products.
We are actively committed to supporting the social, environmental and economic development of the country.
We are committed to align our strategies and operations with the universal principles of the United Nations Global Compact.
To create real sustainability in the cocoa sector
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