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Name:

Cooperative Agricole du Kenedougou

Business Name:

Cooperative Agricole du Kenedougou

Location:

12.459373672058103, -1.9775390625

Country:

Burkina Faso

Region:

Western Africa

Website:

http://fairtrade.ca/fr/producteurs/portraits/cooperative-agricole-du-kenedougou-coopake

Do you have experience exporting directly?

Yes

Describe yourself in 140 characters or less:

Created in 1963, the main objective of the COOPAKE is to provide jobs for young people in the Orodara region.

Bio:

The primary objective of the COOPAKE (Agricultural Cooperative Kénédougou) at its inception in 1963 was the marketing of mangoes which the whole region is producing. Orodara is well known as the “”Orchard Burkina”” because of the abundance of fruit production. The COOPAKE helps create jobs for young people and taking its economic and social role in the province and the municipality of Kénédougou Orodara in particular.
The cooperative provides all expenses for the sales function in fruit farming and food: bundling and packaging, packaging and transportation, quality control and monitoring of organic farming It employs 6 permanent people, 40 seasonal, by 2010 it held 162 individual producer members.

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Number of employees:

51-250

Size of business (annual sales in US$)

US$250, 001-US$1, 000, 000

What is your primary language?

English

Type (select all that apply)

Grower or harvester

Export to

United States,

Business - First/Last Name

Cooperative Kenedougou

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