“El Ceibo” is a cooperative created in 1977 with the aim to break the transport and market monopoly through the intermediaries. Nowadays it has more than 850 partners that cultivate cocoa in small plots, not bigger than 12 hectares.

El Ceibo has become the most well-known and respected cooperative in Bolivia. At the beginning, the partners built a store and a drying plant. After that, they built a simple factory for the cocoa production. It was the first time that producers changed the production themselves. Nowadays, El Ceibo produces cocoa powder, cocoa fat and even chocolate.

The benefits and services that offers to their members are: transport, technical training, university education, market credits, investigation, etc.