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Company News From Thursday, April 18, 2019
Source: clbadfmonline.com
2019-04-18
The treatment allowance, which was set at 552.96 GH ¢, was raised to 1000 GH ¢ per hectare
The Ghana Cocoa Council (Cocobod) has increased the initial processing fee, which is part of the compensation program for landowners and cocoa farmers who agree to cut and replant their cocoa plantations affected by the virus. Cocoa Proliferation as part of the National Cocoa Rehabilitation Program.
The initial treatment premium, which was set at 552.96 GH ¢, was increased to 1,000 GH ¢ per hectare.
Mr. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, President and CEO of Cocobod, announced this news in Sefwi Wiawso, in the North West Region, in front of a chief town and residents of the traditional Sefwi Wiawso Zone, in honor of President Nana Addo, Dankwa Akufo-Addo, during her one-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-tolerant plants for increased and sustainable yield.
According to Mr. Aidoo, the government and Cocobod will bear the cost of cutting contaminated cocoa and replanting.
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.
"On five hectares of cacao, two hectares are infected," he lamented.
The CEO of Cocobod urged farmers to subscribe to the national cocoa rehabilitation program to prevent any decline in production.
He said young people from farming communities were engaged in the replanting exercise to create jobs for them.
The CEC had already brought the president and his entourage to visit a farm treated by CSSV in Ntrentreso, a farming community close to Sefwi Wiawso.
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