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For near­ly two years, farm­ers in Gran Cou­va have been liv­ing with the heart­break of watch­ing their liveli­hoods slip away with every pass­ing day that the Gran Cou­va Main Road re­mains in a di­lap­i­dat­ed con­di­tion.

Now, they say the work has abrupt­ly stopped, and there is no word on what is hap­pen­ing.Dis­as­ter struck in No­vem­ber 2022, when a land­slide tore the vi­tal road­way apart. Since then, the farm­ers of the Montser­rat Co­coa Farm­ers’ Co­op­er­a­tive So­ci­ety Lim­it­ed (MCFC­SL) said they have lost mil­lions of dol­lars.

While their crops still grow and their co­coa beans still fer­ment, with­out a prop­er road, their ef­forts with­er be­fore even reach­ing the mar­ket.