North Kivu & Ituri · DR Congo

Premium traceable cacao from North Kivu, DR Congo

We own and operate cacao farms in North Kivu and supply premium fermented cocoa beans directly to chocolate manufacturers and importers worldwide — every lot geolocated, cut-tested and documented from plot to port.

2,500 t
Average annual volume
~208 t
Current monthly capacity
100%
Lots with plot geolocation
6 days
Box fermentation, turned every 48 h
Why buyers work with us

Origin access without the origin risk.

Most cocoa leaving eastern DR Congo passes through three or four hands before it reaches a shipping line. We removed those hands. You buy from the company that grows, ferments and dries the beans.

Direct from the plot

No aggregator layer between you and the farm. We control fermentation and drying, which is where cocoa quality is actually won or lost.

EUDR-ready from day one

Every plot in our network is polygon-mapped. We hand over a geolocation data pack with the shipping documents, not six weeks later.

Two provinces, one standard

North Kivu and Ituri give us complementary altitude bands and staggered harvests — different flavour profiles, one quality protocol.

Documented, not asserted

Cut tests, moisture readings, free fatty acid and lab bulletins from both DRC and Uganda travel with the lot.

Buyer tools

Do the work before you email us.

Look up a lot, check what is on the floor this month, and model your landed cost — without waiting on a sales reply.

The origin

Why North Kivu grows cocoa that tastes like somewhere.

Eastern DR Congo sits on the western arm of the Great Rift Valley. Volcanic soils, altitude between 800 and 1,350 metres, and rainfall spread across most of the year give cacao a slow, even maturation that lowland origins cannot reproduce. The result is a bean with real acidity structure — red fruit and citrus over a deep cocoa base — rather than flat commodity cocoa.

It is also one of the least industrialised cocoa origins left. There is no century-old export cartel here. That means the traceability most origins are retrofitting under pressure, we simply built in from the start.

See our farms
PHOTO — drone shot over a cacao block, Rwenzori in the distance
Altitude range
780 – 1,340 m
Rainfall
1,450 – 2,000 mm/yr
Soils
Volcanic andisols, forest loam
Varieties
Trinitario, Forastero
Main crop
October – January
Mid crop
May – July
Documented capability

What we hand a buyer, every shipment.

Certificate of origin

Issued by the competent DRC authority for each consignment.

Phytosanitary certificate

Export inspection certificate covering the shipped lot.

Analysis bulletin

Physical and organoleptic analysis, run in DR Congo and verified in Uganda.

Geolocation data pack

Plot polygons and coordinates for every farm contributing to the lot.

Cut test report

300-bean cut test with fermentation, slaty, mouldy and defect percentages.

Weight and quality certificate

Independent survey at loading, on request.

Standing and partners
Registered exporter
Registered with the DRC Ministry of Commerce with a valid export licence.
AGL / Bolloré
Primary logistics partner: Africa Global Logistics, with AMICONGO and TMK as approved secondary forwarders.
Banking
RAWBANK, DR Congo. Documentary letters of credit accepted.
Dispute record
No commercial dispute recorded to date.
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Start a conversation

Send us your specification. We will send back a lot that matches it.

Tell us your target profile, volume and destination port. Our export desk replies within two business days with available lots, a cut-test report and an indicative offer.