{"id":749842,"date":"2019-11-22T11:34:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T11:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/22\/cocobod-farm-rehabilitation-revives-abandoned-villages\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T11:34:01","slug":"cocobod-farm-rehabilitation-revives-abandoned-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/22\/cocobod-farm-rehabilitation-revives-abandoned-villages\/","title":{"rendered":"COCOBOD Farm Rehabilitation Revives Abandoned Villages"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A farmer erects a new shed for his farming activities<\/strong><\/p>\n

COCOA FARMERS who were forced some two years ago by the ravaging impact of the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD) to desert their farms and hamlets in parts of the Western North Cocoa Region, are beginning to return to their villages to resume farming.<\/p>\n

This follows the cocoa rehabilitation programme by the Ghana Cocoa Board
\n(COCOBOD) in restoring abandoned lands back to arable states for cocoa farming.<\/p>\n

Nana Samuel K. Tabiri, one such returned farmers, said after more than 30
\nyears of cocoa farming at Pillar 34, a community near the Ghana-Cote d\u2019Ivoire
\nborder, he had to leave his community because his farm was devastated by CSSVD.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lost everything to the cocoa disease,\u201d he recounted. \u201cInitially, I
\ndid not know that my farm was affected by CSSVD until my yield dropped to less
\nthan a bag during a crop year, then I realized there was nothing to live on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another farmer also at Pillar 34, Georgina Pommah, is now full of
\ngratitude for the intervention of government and COCOBOD.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am just thankful to COCOBOD for restoring my farm,\u201d she said. \u201cMy
\nyield dropped to only two bags a year when the CSSVD invaded my farm a couple
\nof years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

COCOBOD\u2019s cocoa rehabilitation programme involves the removal of cocoa
\ntrees from hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland affected by CSSVD,
\nridding the farmlands of any trace of the disease and then replanting with
\nimproved cocoa crop strains. The government bears the full cost of the exercise
\nand provides compensation to both the affected farmers and their landowners.<\/p>\n

Kwame Owusu-Ansah, Western North Regional Manager of the Cocoa Health
\n& Extension Division (CHED) of COCOBOD, said his outfit noticed as the
\nrehabilitation exercise progressed, that migrant farmers in the region, many of
\nwho moved to the Brong Ahafo Cocoa Region gradually returned to farm again on their
\nrehabilitated farms.<\/p>\n

Regrettably, the Western North Region, which hitherto produced a third
\nof the national cocoa output, gradually lost its pole position in cocoa
\nproduction due to the devastation caused to farms by the CSSVD. <\/p>\n

Last year, COCOBOD and the government commenced a process to seriously
\ntackle the menace through the cutting of diseased farms in the region and
\nrehabilitating them under a well-designed scheme that provides adequate
\ncompensation to farmers and their farm owners.<\/p>\n

Some 230,000 hectares of CSSVD infected farms in the Western Region are
\nbeing tackled in phases, in an effort to restore the region\u2019s feat as the hub
\nof cocoa production in the country in the next 5 years. <\/p>\n

The progress of the rehabilitation programme has so far been very
\nremarkable and with cocoa farmers returning to their rehabilitated farms in the
\nEssam, Adabokrom, Juaboso, and Enchi Districts where the rehabilitation is on
\ncourse, it looks clear that spring is being re-born under the bright steps of
\nthe government and COCOBOD.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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