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From bean to bar: AI to derisk the cocoa crisis
Cocoa witnessed an unprecedented price storm in 2024 & 2025 due to severe global supply shortage driven by devastating weather conditions in West Africa. Cocoa thrives in hot, humid tropical regions. The pods of the tree contain seeds (beans), the primary raw material for chocolate.
Major challenges
Cocoa is highly sensitive to climate change, which led to the recent price surge. Major diseases like Black Pod Disease, along with pests cause substantial crop losses annually. Despite the high value of the end product (chocolate), many smallholder cocoa farmers receive extremely low “farm-gate” prices for their beans and chronic poverty leads to underinvestment in farms.
Digitize cocoa value chain seamlessly with Cropin
- Enhance farmer engagement to drive sustainable cultivation
- Mitigate risks with Pest & Disease advisories
- Leverage AI and satellite-imagery to remotely monitor crops
- Gain predictive and prescriptive intelligence for data-driven decision making
Real-world deployments
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Acres digitized by Cropin
- DEWS
- Black pod
- Mealy bug
- Tea mosquito bug
- Dieback
- Stem canker
- Irrigation advisories
Case in point: Rainforest alliance
- 80% accurate identification of black pod disease
- 1500kg of annual cocoa production by farmers
- Improved yield prediction accurate by up to 90%
- 3x growth in average yields of Ghanaian cocoa farmers
Global presence
Cocoa beans are the indispensable ingredient for chocolate, a multi-billion dollar global industry. Cocoa underpins a vast and complex global value chain that extends from small farms to multinational chocolate manufacturers, traders, and retailers. This chain creates millions of jobs and significant economic activity.
Ghana
Nigeria
Togo
India
Philippines
Vietnam
Georgia
Switzerland
Mexico
Nicaragua
Vanuatu
Brazil
Colombia
locations:
- Ghana
- British Indian Ocean territory
- Ghana
- Nigeria
- Togo
- India
- Philippines
- India
- Vietnam
- Georgia
- Switzerland
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Vanuatu
- Brazil
- Colombia
Other resources
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Frequently asked questions
What is Cropin’s cocoa crop solution, and what problems does it solve?
Cropin’s cocoa solution is a digital platform that monitors cocoa farms, predicts yields, and provides real-time advisories. It helps tackle pest and disease outbreaks, climate variability, quality issues, and supply chain inefficiencies, improving farm productivity and reliability.
Why is digital transformation important for the cocoa value chain?
Digital transformation enables better farm monitoring, traceability, and decision-making. It reduces crop losses, enhances yield and quality, improves farmer engagement, and streamlines supply chain operations from plantation to processing and market. It enables a single source of truth to verify sustainability claims, which is critical for regulations like EUDR.
What technologies are used in Cropin’s cocoa solution?
Cropin uses AI, remote sensing, and mobile applications to provide actionable insights, monitor crop health, forecast yields, and guide interventions for sustainable and optimized cocoa cultivation. It offers custom dashboards for a single platform view across operations.
How does Cropin support cocoa plantation digitization and farmer profiling?
Cropin digitizes plantations and profiles farmers by capturing field-level data, tracking growth stages, monitoring farm practices, and mapping plots, enabling personalized advisories, improved compliance, and efficient farm management across large cocoa operations.
How does Cropin help cocoa enterprises comply with the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)?
Cropin provides the digital infrastructure to map farm boundaries (polygons) and cross-reference them with satellite imagery. It provides digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (dMRV) to validate deforestation claims. This ensures cocoa is not sourced from land deforested after the December 2020 cutoff, providing the “due diligence” documentation required for the European market.
How does Cropin help manage the risk of diseases like "Black Pod Disease" (Phytophthora) in cocoa?
Black Pod is a major threat in humid cocoa-growing regions. Cropin’s predictive models analyze rainfall and humidity levels to disseminate “Early Warning Alerts.” Farmers receive advisories on pruning and timely fungicide application to prevent the spread of the fungus across the plantation.
How does the platform handle data in "Remote Cocoa Clusters" with low connectivity?
The Cropin mobile application is designed with “Offline-First” capabilities. Field agents can capture farm polygons, crop photos, and farmer data in remote forest areas without internet access. The data automatically syncs to the cloud once the agent reaches a location with a stable connection.
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