The members of the Engaged Chocolatiers Club on mission in Togo, went to Badou (Litimé) in the prefecture of Wawa to identify and validate the site chosen for the installation of the post-harvest treatment center for high-end cocoa in Togo. . This activity aims to finalize the partnership agreement with cocoa producers in Togo.

The members of the Club des Chocolatiers Engagés, accompanied by technicians and agricultural engineers, met to make an inventory of all the tasks to be carried out, to see how to size this first post-harvest processing center which will be installed and to identify the needs and the requirements, all the equipment and all the necessary training. They also took the opportunity of their presence in Togo to explain to the Unions of Cocoa Producer Cooperatives of Wawa as well as in the localities of Kloto and Agou, what is cocoa of excellence, what are the processes of its production and the related requirements. In fact, according to the members of the Club des Chocolatiers Engagés, excellent cocoa feeds both the planter or producer and the buyer. The buyer, by putting the price and the means, wants the planter to change his life, improve his living conditions, those of his family, his environment and all those around him. The objective is to precisely determine the pre-feasibility conditions that can allow the implementation of a pilot phase for the establishment of a Center of Excellence for cocoa processing in Togo on the model of the actions and operations implemented. works in Cameroon with Cameroonian actors including the Interprofessional Council of the Coffee and Cocoa sector and the Club of Chocolate Makers Engaged.