Equatorial Guinea Malabo Bioko Island

In Equatorial Guinea, Malabo, we develop our activities.

Our company’s activity is centered on the Island of Bioko. The production was initiated in 1906 by cultivating and exporting cacao that was then and is at present our principal activity all throughout the island.

Since the year 2000 other complementary activities are running, among them gardening, which includes providing services, planting and maintaining gardens. Furthermore, we dispose of a rich nursery of tropical plants.

This structure of the production requires a high level of funding, since investments have to be made in buying the sulphate and lime, as well as in maintaining the dryers, buying and repairing vehicles, etc., all this primarily before the start of each harvest.

These last years the government of Equatorial Guinea has been supporting the cocoa sector by granting subsidies for sulphate and lime as well as the interior price.

This has contributed to the fact that, in spite of the difficulties that the agricultural sector is going through, the cultivation of cacao continues in settlements of the island and on the plantations of our company.

Small plantations around towns and villages owned by local proprietors are the ones most cultivated nowadays, whcih in turn sell their production to the best offer.

It is important to differentiate the growth of the sector associated with Gardening in our company, and an adequate work on the planting and maintaining of small gardens and large territories with appropriate machinery and a nursery of tropical plants.

At present we have an average of 100.000 plants with about 200 varieties, most of them can be seen in this on-line catalog. Under market needs we have capacity to triple production inmediately.

We have realized different production tests with various crops and maintain a genetic material suitable for planting on a large scale. Between these crops, worthy of special attention are pepper, nutmeg and cinnamon. Owing to the demand on the interior market, we will soon develop plantations of fruits, such as pineapple and papaya, on a large scale.