The District
Manager of Cocoa Merchant Company, a licenced cocoa buying company in the
Central Region, has urged farmers to embrace the mass cocoa spraying exercise
introduced by government.
Speaking after a farmers’ meeting at Agona Duakwa in
the Central Region, Mr. Randy Nkrumah said embracing the mass cocoa spraying
exercise will help farmers to increase their crop yields.
He said the exercise was part of a high-tech cocoa
production method.
Mr. Nkrumah said introduction of the high-tech
programme is a testimony of government’s determination to help improve the
cocoa industry in order to reduce poverty among the farmers.
He expressed concern that some cocoa farmers failed to
allow their farms to be sprayed, although their cocoa farms are infested with
the capsid virus that destroys cocoa beans.Source:B&FT
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