The Ghana COCOBOD has set up a program for the cocoa rehabilitation exercise this year to cut down over 80,000 hectares of cocoa trees affected by swollen shoot disease nationwide.
The team will replant high-yielding diseases resistance cocoa trees to replace the affected trees.
The intervention is part of an effort to help Ghana meet its target of cocoa production.
In an interview with Kwame Kontor Boateng Lord FM, the District Cocoa Health and Extension Division Manager (CHED), Mr. Frank Amamoo Antwi stated that the national cocoa rehabilitation program has enabled them to meet the workforce, to strategize, conduct, and streamline the specification in the area of weeding, line, and pegging to guarantee their target to rehabilitate 10,000 affected hectares this year to achieve their goals.
Mr. Frank Amamoo Antwi stresses that COCOBOD has employed over 725 rehabilitation farm hands workers to assiduously work to improve the exercise and has laid off some of the aged and replaced the energetic to fast-track the process.
Mr. Kusi Joseph, the Coordinator for Sefwi Bekwai Cocoa Health And Extension Division Officer (CHED) debunked the assertion that ” those who have been laid off are going to receive their stipends and advise those retained to work hard and stop the complaints and excuses, else they’ll also be shown the exit”
Some of the beneficiaries of the cocoa rehabilitation program also used the medium to eulogize COCOBOD and the government.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom/Kwame Kontor Boateng/ Lord FM – Sefwi Bekwai
