COCOA

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The Cocoa Rehabilitation Project will assist the Government in its efforts to achieve quick economic recovery through the increased production of cocoa and in reaching its longer term objectives for the development of the agriculture sector as a whole. To achieve these objectives, the project will, first, increase production and improve workers' social conditions in two cocoa plantations (Bela Vista and Uba Budo), and, second, reinforce Sao Tome and Principe's (STP) agriculture sector. The project will accomplish this latter item by facilitating future financing of other plantations in the cocoa subsector; creating applied research capacities in the food crop subsector; (iii) supporting smallholders development; and (iv) addressing other issues through studies and consulting services. This latter element will assist the Government in formulating and implementing its policies, in diversifying its agricultural base, and in shifting the status of its state enterprises to that of mixed-economy enterprises.

World Bank Group

Project

Fertilizers, Raw Materials, Government