Productivity

Irrigation in agriculture, and cocoa farming in particular, is a critical activity in several regions of the world. Most of the world's cocoa beans are produced by rain-fed agriculture which dictates the two production cycles in a year.…
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Substandard pesticides are said to be penetrating the agro-input market in Ghana on the back of the rising cost of authentic crop nutrition products globally. Global prices of quality fertilisers and pesticides are getting more and more…
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Ghana's cocoa sector is recovering steadily from the triple-headed problem of drought, disease and aged farms. The challenge meant that in the past couple of years the second-largest cocoa producer nation in the world had struggled at…
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The District Chief Executive for Upper Denkyira West District in the Central Region, Agyeman Asiedu, has made an appeal to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to train cocoa farmers to undertake pruning and hand pollination on their own, to…
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