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Most of our cocoa trees are 60-years old

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  • KOO 10 years ago

    These are sad stories from people with knowledge.Things are not going well in Ghana.We have placed all our hope on the new found oil revenue,leaving all other sectors to the mercy of benevolence and sympathizers.When shall we ...
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  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Government must do this too. The cocoa farms belong to individuals and they should have been renewing the trees. Why wait for government. You shoutgaianst socialism so let us practice the capitalism

  • PEKI TUMU 10 years ago

    This cannot be a surprised. With no planned renewal this is what would happen. There has been no agric census of these trees in order to know about stock levels and plan for their replcement

    It is like this and that is ...
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  • ONYAME NIPA (Man Of God) USA 10 years ago

    GHANA GOVT IS CORRUPT

  • Kalahariman 10 years ago

    Instead of cutting down old trees why not leave them and plant additional new hybrid crops. This is just common sense. There is abundance of land. After all, the old trees are still producing...this will increase yields at th ...
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  • oakman 10 years ago

    What is wrong with the mentality of some people in Ghana?Cocoa have for a long time been the back bone of the nation,and for someone to think,helping farmers to renovate their farms is socialism is to say the least myopic.Wha ...
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