Located in the Plaisance / Champagne
area of the Nord Department, the Koperativ Plante Volonté Chanpay (Voluntary Producers Cooperative of Champagne) is one of the smaller RECOCARNO
co-operatives. There are washing stations at Champagne and Magot processing coffee from KOPVOCH's 400 smallholder members.
For milling, KOPVOCH's coffee currently needs to be transported
down to the coast and up into the mountains again to the CACGAVA
mills in Dondon (one of which is owned by CACGAVA and a more powerful
electric mill owned by RECOCARNO).
When the planned central processing facility is completed near
Cap-Haïtien this extra journey will be avoided. KOPVOCH (like KAPBM) is inaccessible by vehicle. The nearest drivable road is more than an hour's walk from the growing areas and even the access roads are inaccessible during rainy periods when rivers cannot be forded and all the access roads are flooded. Even the access paths are sometimes impassable during and after heavy rain as their tortuous routes cross rivers repeatedly.
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