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The Mosaic Company, 2012 Sustainability Report
The farmers are educated by Mosaic
agronomists and given interest-free loans at
planting, which they repay when their har vest
yields a surplus. Af ter just three years,
97
percent of farmers who star ted the program
have graduated and no longer need loans, as
their large yield increases have allowed them to
sell a surplus at market.
The projects have a fixed annual investment by
The Mosaic Company Foundation but
naturally expand in scale through continual
improvements in ef ficiency and the
reinvestment of the repaid loans.
One of the most exciting discoveries of the
Deloit te evaluation is that best practices from the
program have been spreading by word of mouth
to the surrounding villages without any level of
inter vention by Mosaic or HELPS. The potency
of the project stems from its easily duplicated
simplicit y and defined focus. In many of these
neighboring villages, the doubling of average
yield is being obser ved.
97
%
OF FARMERS
GRADUATED
After just three years, 97 percent of farmers
who started the program have graduated
and no longer need loans, as their large
yield increases have allowed them to sell a
surplus at market and generated capital.
Alta Verapaz
program
Alta Verapaz Program yields
3.86
tonnes/hectare
Regional yields
outside
the program
1.24
tonnes/hectare
National average yields
1.89
tonnes/hectare
Food
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