Mr Joseph Boahene Aiddo, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has appealed to traditional rulers to stamp their authority to uproot the galamsey menace especially in Cocoa growing areas of the country. According to him, galamsey activities continued to wreak havoc on cocoa farms, which was taking…
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The Western Regional Youth Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party, Benedict Addae has commended the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) for making a stringent effort to secure cocoa farmers a new trading mechanism.
The new trading mechanism allow farmers to trade their cocoa at US$400 per tonne as Living Income Differential (LID) for every cocoa sold.
Mr Addae added that the COCOBOD boss apart from his efforts to make the cocoa sector attractive has also transformed the sector with impactful interventions.
He maintained that the reintroduction of the subsidized fertilizer programme for effective soil fertility to maximize cocoa production, mass spraying, cutting down of cocoa trees which are infected with the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD) as other interventions rolled out by the COCOBOD boss to boost the production and efficiency of cocoa farmers.