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Liberia: LFSP Boosts Cocoa Farming in Grand Gedeh, River Gee Counties
Liberia: LFSP Boosts Cocoa Farming in Grand Gedeh, River Gee Counties
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MONROVIA The Liberian Forest Sector Project (LFSP), with support from the Government of Norway through the World Bank has boosted the hopes of about 2,000 cocoa farmers in South Eastern Liberia especially Grand Gedeh and River Gee counties by procuring 150,000 f1 hybrid cocoa seeds/beans from the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana which arrived in the country Thursday, February 11, 2021.
A joint team comprising technicians from the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), Forestry Development Authority (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)) attended the arrival ceremony of the consignment at the Roberts International Airport for inspection and acceptance before being officially turned over to the Ministry of Agriculture.
Galamsey activities have marred the environment Dr Francis Padi, Acting Executive Director of the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), says illegal mining, popularly called galamsey, is the biggest threat to the sustainability of the cocoa industry.
He said without illegal mining and its huge negative impact on the cocoa industry “Ghana can maintain its one million metric tonnes per year with the consistent recommendations from the research activities of the CRIG.”
The acting Director, who made this known in an interaction with Mr Sugandh Rajaram, the India High Commissioner to Ghana, indicated that cocoa diseases were another setback, but through research Ghana had progressively increased its cocoa production from 355,000 metric tonnes in the year 2000 to one-million tonnes currently.
Cocoa4Future: putting people and the environment back at the heart of cocoa growing
19/01/2021 - Press release
Making cocoa growing in West Africa more sustainable and resilient. this is the task set for the Cocoa4Future project, coordinated by CIRAD and funded by the EU DeSIRA programme and the Agence Française de Développement. Over five years, more than 150 monocrop or agroforestry cocoa plantings will be assessed from an agro-environmental point of view, while 350 farms in Ivory Coast and Ghana will benefit from support for new farmer strategies, notably as regards agroforestry. The different project partners have just signed a consortium agreement.
Stephen Opuni
A policeman yesterday told the Accra High Court that Seidu Agongo, the Managing Director of Agricult Ghana Limited, a fertiliser manufacturing company, sold Lithovit Liquid fertiliser to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) between 2014 to 2017.
Detective Inspector Mercer Prempeh, was testifying as seventh witness in the case in which Dr Stephen Kwabena Opuni and Mr Agongo are standing trial for alleged procurement breaches and stealing, in a fertiliser deal.
Insp Prempeh told the court that Agricult Limited presented a powdery substance to the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) for testing, but it was later sold as liquid substance to Cocoa Board.