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COCOBOD develops high resistance hybrid seedlings
Aug 12, 2020
Accra, Aug 11, GNA - The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is focusing on mitigating the cocoa swollen shoot disease in its research activities, Food and Agriculture Minister, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto announced on Wednesday.
Additionally, it is also developing hybrid seedlings with relatively high resistance to the disease.
The measures are part of a pilot rehabilitation project by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to ensure production of high yielding cocoa seedlings.
The Minister announced the measures in response to an urgent question on the floor of the House, asked by Alhaji A B A Fuseini, MP for Sagnarigu, on the “measures the Ministry is putting in place to ensure the production of high yielding cocoa seedlings for the cocoa industry, having regard to the fluctuation in the levels of cocoa production over the past five years.”
Cocoa has been the mainstay of Ghana’s economy until the discovery of oil in recent times.
However, there has been a systematic decline in the country’s production in the last five years, and the Minister admitted that available data indicate that the decline started ten years ago.
Dr Akoto said the cocoa swollen shoot disease (CSSVD) is a prominent factor that has contributed to the decline in production levels.
He spoke of numerous activities being undertaken jointly by the Cocoa Health and Extension Division and the Seed Production Division of the Ghana COCOBOD to revive cocoa plantations, which include the replanting of swollen shoot treated farms and rehabilitation of overaged and moribund farms.
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