\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/sddefault-13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p> <br \/>\n <iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"td_youtube_player\" width=\"600\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oTRB6tI_5p4?enablejsapi=1&feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&vq=hd720\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe> <br \/>\n <br \/>\n \n <\/p>\n<p>Cocoa farmers at Otsenkorang in the Agona West Municipality in the Central region have clashed with staff of an oil plantation company for destroying their cocoa trees to replace them with palm trees.<\/p>\n<p>Reports by <strong>Adom News<\/strong> reporter, Kofi Adjei suggested that the destruction of the cocoa farms was to pave way for the building of an oil plantation company under government\u2019s One-District-One-Factory (1D1F) initiative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO: Photo: 3 men jailed 19 years each for possessing narcotic drugs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Adomonline\/jw-adomonline --><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with <strong>Adom News<\/strong>, the assemblyman for the area, Paul Akyerew explained they were not informed about the company\u2019s presence in the town. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey came to the town on Monday and started the destruction with their bulldozers on Wednesday and upon confrontation, I was told it was a \u20181D1F\u2019 company, but my checks at the assembly revealed otherwise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO: Audio: Rabies outbreak kills 2 at Kasoa <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several attempts by the cocoa farmers to stop the destruction of their cocoa farms proved futile due to the presence of heavily armed policemen hired from Swedru and Nyakrom by the company to the site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Adomonline.com | Adom News | Kofi Adjei<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n FB.init({\n appId : '401391866884571',\n xfbml : true,\n version : 'v3.3'\n });\n FB.AppEvents.logPageView();\n };<\/p>\n<p> (function(d, s, id){\n var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Cocoa farmers at Otsenkorang in the Agona West Municipality in the Central region have clashed with staff of an oil plantation company for destroying their cocoa trees to replace them with palm trees. Reports by Adom News reporter, Kofi Adjei suggested that the destruction of the cocoa farms was to pave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":656019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Video: Cocoa farmers exchange blows with staff of oil plantation company over land - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/13\/video-cocoa-farmers-exchange-blows-with-staff-of-oil-plantation-company-over-land\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Video: Cocoa farmers exchange blows with staff of oil plantation company over land - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"
 
 
 
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