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'''KOSAMA, short for Kooperative Kooperativa Sambirano Manongalaza, is a cooperative of smallholder cacao farmers since 2022. Its members represent about 100 independent smallholder farmers with planting areas of altogether about 100 hectares in the region around along [[Sambirano]] in northeast northwest Madagascar.'''
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The approximately 100 members follow traditional and all-organic cacao cultivation, fermentation and processing methods.
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KOSAMA's organically certified cacao beans are supplied to artisanal chocolatiers such as [[Éka Chocolate]] among other premium bean-to-bar chocolate producers.
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Alphonse, the President of the cooperative, manages a 4-hectare cacao planting area around KOSAMA's processing facility.
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'''KOSAMA'''<br>
''Kooperativa Sambirano Manongalaza''<br>
Ambohimena<br>
Madagascar