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The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has revised upwards the initial treatment grant. The grant is part of the compensation program for landowners and cocoa farmers who agree to cut and replant their cocoa swollen virus (CSSV) cocoa farms as part of the ongoing national cocoa rehabilitation program. .
DGN Online understands that the initial treatment subsidy has been set at G ¢ 552.96 from the beginning, but has been increased to 1 000 G ¢ per hectare.
Joseph Boahen Aidoo, Executive Director of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), made the announcement in Sefwi Wiawso, North West Region, in front of a chairman of the chiefs and residents of Sefwi Wiawso Traditional Zone. , in the honor of the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who was on a two-day working visit to the region.
Mr Aidoo said that out of a total of 1.9 million hectares of cocoa plantations studied, 315,800 hectares had been affected by swollen shoot virus.
The Western North Region alone has 214,500 hectares of affected farms.
He therefore advised landowners and cocoa farmers to allow their infected trees to be cut and replanted with high-yielding, early-carrier, and disease-resistant seedlings for increased and sustainable yield.
According to the Director General, the cost of cutting infected cocoa trees and replanting will be borne by the government and COCOBOD. In addition, plantain and economic tree seedlings will be provided free of charge to affected farmers.
Mr. Aidoo pointed out that no chemical can treat an infected cocoa tree unless it is cut and replanted.
He said that "on five hectares of cocoa, two hectares are infected".
— Daily guide
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