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Farmers Association Calls On COCOBOD To Monitor Seedlings Distributed By Gov’t

August 17, 2020
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Farmers Association Calls On COCOBOD To Monitor Seedlings Distributed By Gov’t

The Concerned Farmers Association of Ghana has called on the government to implement a monitoring system to check the destruction of cocoa trees in the country.

This monitoring system the Association is advocating for is to track the number of seedlings that the farmers plant as the government gives farmers over 60 million seedlings annually. This, it believes will ensure transparency and a balance when and if a rehabilitation process occurs.

The association’s claims come on the back of government’s directive to rehabilitate some cocoa farms affected by the cocoa swollen shoot virus disease (CSSVD) in the Western North Region.

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Speaking on behalf of the Association, the President, Nana Oboadie Boateng Opambour in an interview stated that though the initiative was commendable, there was the need to ensure that there would be strong checks on the farmers to ensure the replanting of the cocoa seedlings given to farmers annually.

“On the issue of the swollen shoot disease, I think it is a good idea that they are replanting the trees. However, it seems they have been causing financial losses despite the many years that COCOBOD has spent planting cocoa and other crops. Why am I saying this? In the last few years, we planted 60 million seedlings. These seedlings were given to the farmers, but can COCOBOD tell us how many of these seedlings have been planted?  The rehabilitation is good but there are millions of trees that are being destroyed for other purposes. What is COCOBOD doing about this?”

Meanwhile, he said his outfit finds it surprising that Ghana Cocoa Board will give such a directive while the association has made calls on the body at the rate at which cocoa trees are cut to pave way for other things.

“The reason we are so surprised about this situation is that we have raised so many concerns regarding the destruction of cocoa trees in the country. Earlier this year, almost four thousand acres of cocoa plantations were destroyed in Essikesi in the Eastern Region for planting rubber and cattle grazing but we never saw any reaction from COCOBOD. They said nothing about it.”

Within the last 10 years, the rate of production of cocoa in the Sefwi area of the Western North Region has dropped from 340,000 tonnes to 140,000 tonnes a year.

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The downward trend has been attributed mainly to the devastating effects of the swollen shoot disease.

Background

Earlier this month, the Western North Regional Manager of Cocoa Health and Extension Division, COCOBOD, Kwame Owusu-Ansah, said that close to 42 percent of the 500 thousand hectares of Cocoa farming areas in the Western North were affected by the swollen shoot virus disease.

He indicated that the only way out was to cut down trees for replanting as there has by far not been any solution to dealing with the disease.

According to him, replanting of cocoa trees had been done across ten thousand hectares of the affected cocoa farms that were cut down due to the disease.

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