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Comment on contract farming
The company sources cocoa from sharecroppers on 1,081ha
Comment on crops
Old cocoa plantations (> 30 years) had been cleared and are currently being replanted with rubber trees (Hevea Braziliensis)
Comment on in country processing of produce
The S.C.A.M has three factories: Complex Factory Works in Nganda Tsundi for the treatment of cocoa and coffee, Another at Tshela for granulated rubber and The third at Boma for oil production Palm kernels (PKO) and meal (PKE).
The S.C.A.M has three factories: One factory complex processes cocoa and coffee at Nganda Tsundi, another processes granulated rubber at Tshela, and the third produces palm kernel oil (PKO) and animal feed (PKE), a byproduct from the shell and husk of the palm kernel, at Boma.
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Comment
Mayumbe, Nganda Sundi

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Type
Research Paper / Policy Report
Keep PDF not public
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Publication title
Cocoa: Driver of deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Date
2014
Comment on data source
Working Paper No. 65 CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Authors: Hilde de Beule, Laurence Jassogne, Piet van Asten