Community empowerment is our key to scale up smallholder participation in PROJECT TREE. During the second quarter in 2024, we engaged 1663 Smallholders (Male 1248, Female 415). As of 30 June 2024, total 10,717 smallholders participated in the project (8,732 Male and 1,985 Female).

We are very happy to welcome more and more smallholders joining our traceability system. So far, we have embraced at least 5,000 smallholders registered to contribute to TREE+, our precious traceable material which brings information up to smallholder’s polygons (geolocation) with transaction details at every collecting point. With TREE+, smallholders in our supply chain have tasted the sweetness of the incentive from this project.

A fine story from Mrs. Margiati, a female smallholder in Desa Suka Menang, Muara Enim, South Sumatera, she found PROJECT TREE incentive encouraging other local smallholders to join her group in supplying TREE+.