ASSIN FOSU: YOUTH URGED TO SEE COCOA PRODUCTION AS A VIABLE BUSINESS AND NOT SOMETHING FOR THE UNEDUCATED - DIRECTOR OF CHED

ASSIN FOSU: YOUTH URGED TO SEE COCOA PRODUCTION AS A VIABLE BUSINESS AND NOT SOMETHING FOR THE UNEDUCATED - DIRECTOR OF CHED

The District Cocoa Officer of the Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) in Assin Fosu in the Central Region, Mr. Isaac Sarfo Afram has encouraged the Ghanaian youth to go into cocoa farming, saying that “it is very lucrative and rewarding.”

Speaking with OBAAPA ABK of Rich Fm, he said the youth should be motivated by the government and COCOBOD's interventions such as free distribution of early maturing and high-yielding cocoa seedlings which takes only 3 years to yield instead of 7 years, pruning machines, free distribution of agrochemicals, fertilizers alongside other inputs, to venture into the cocoa production.

Additionally, they have professionally trained cocoa health and extension officers who assist cocoa farmers to increase their productivity, improve income and enhance their livelihood.

 He said in a bid to boost Ghana's production Cocobod is no longer recruiting new hand pollinators but rather the already trained pollinators are maintained and have been empowered to pollinate cocoa farms which the farmer will bear a little cost. He, therefore, encouraged farmers to take advantage of it to improve their yields.

He also said, currently, the Assin Fosu Cocoa Division is distributing 2.3 million hybrid cocoa seedlings to farmers to increase their yields for free. He however advised the beneficiaries to plant it to achieve its intended purpose.

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