They come in ones and twos, to the sandy turnoff beside the rutted two-lane highway that is typical of St Lucia’s road network. Some carry their cacao in buckets, others in barrels on the back of a truck or in the dusty boot of a car. But whatever the size of their crop, the farmers know Hotel Chocolat will take it.

That’s because these farmers – around 50 of them in total – are part of the retailer’s Island Growers programme. Over two decades, it has been working to revive the Caribbean nation’s cacao industry by helping locals start farms of their own.