—“and this way, you can plan for your future.”
Then what Frigoken does is it invests in a processing plant centrally. It gathers all the produce, brings it centrally, and then processes it in a way that is in accordance with what their marketing specialists are telling them will sell in Europe. This way, the farmers get the benefit of being able to get European prices for their goods, which otherwise they would not be able to do.
There are many other experiments. Honey is another area where this has been done very well in east Africa.
This is the idea. Aggregating thousands of small-scale farmers to enable them to produce high-quality surplus, and then providing them with the support in marketing and transport in order to export their goods.