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It's harvest time and Esther's hacking the pods from the trees, reaping the rewards of her labours on her farm in the shade of the southern rainforest canopy.
She's part of a cooperative called Kuapa Kokoo.
It gives them more power.
No more dealing with unscrupulous middlemen.
They get a fair price for their beans plus a bonus to invest in their community.
Since we, the farmers, have sacrificed our lives to stay in the forest to produce the cocoa beans, support us by providing us with our basic needs, like water supply, clinics, good schools and roads.
Which is why, as the beans are spread out to dry,
it's vital they have a bumper harvest.
It'll mean being able to afford to build toilets or a health centre.
The village does have one pump for running water at least,
and that's paid for from the cash bonus from people in Europe who buy Fairtrade chocolate.
Well, this is the main harvest here, and currently just two per cent of the cocoa from here goes into Fairtrade,
but with the new deal that's being signed, that's going to be doubled.
Cocoa industry is strictly controlled by the government.
From Manchester in the North of England, representatives of a British High Street supermarket chain are here to break some news to expectant leaders of the Kuapa Kokoo Cooperative.
I'm here today to announce a momentous move,
a move that'll see us moving all our block chocolate into Fairtrade.
He's from the Co-op in Britain and is the first retailer in the world to take this step.
But what they really want is the rest of the chocolate industry to follow the Co-op's lead.
So why aren't the big producers selling Fairtrade chocolate?
Nestle, Cadbury's, Masterfoods and Kraft Suchard refused to give an interview, referring us to their trade association.
We recognise that in order to make cocoa a sustainable crop, a crop that people want to grow in the long term,
they have to be given a level of encouragement that hasn't been there perhaps in the past but will now be there in the future.
That's the final product.
The irony is that farmers like Esther, who've spent their lives producing cocoa, have never even tasted chocolate.
What do you think?
As you say, it's very sweet.
Her children, unsure at first, then couldn't get enough.
Their message to prosperous consumers of chocolate in Europe is to demand its Fairtrade.
Nicola Carslaw, BBC News, Ghana.
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