{"id":1057719,"date":"2022-04-16T01:46:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T01:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/16\/ghana-cocoa-board-sets-to-boost-cocoa-production-with-irrigation\/"},"modified":"2022-04-16T01:46:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T01:46:58","slug":"ghana-cocoa-board-sets-to-boost-cocoa-production-with-irrigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/16\/ghana-cocoa-board-sets-to-boost-cocoa-production-with-irrigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Cocoa Board sets to boost cocoa production with irrigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Kumikrom (WN\/R), April 15, GNA – The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is set to roll out an irrigation programme for farmers in cocoa growing areas to ensure an all-year round water supply for their farmlands in a bid to increase yield.<\/p>\n
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The move has become necessary following drought in those areas, resulting in the withering of most of the cocoa trees, stunted growth, and low yield.<\/div>\n
Mr Joseph Boahene Aidoo, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of COCOBOD, announced this to cocoa farmers at Kumikrom in the Western North Region at the start of a two-day working tour to some farms.<\/div>\n
The tour afforded the CEO and other officials the opportunity to inspect rehabilitation works by the farmers.<\/div>\n
Mr Aidoo said in addition to the introduction of the irrigation system, farmers must apply the droppings of fowls around their crops to serve as organic fertilizer.<\/div>\n
He said a well rehabilitated farm with irrigation could fetch 1,809 pods on one tree, which would yield 40 bags of cocoa pods per acre to improve their living conditions.<\/div>\n
He hinted of a shortage of fertilizer in the coming months due to the Russia-Ukraine war so COCOBOD had decided to engage farmers to adopt best practices to increase productivity.<\/div>\n
The CEO commended the farmers for the massive pruning of the threes and advised them to minimise the planting of cassava to intersperse their farms.<\/div>\n
He cautioned against the use of unfriendly farming practices such as the application of unapproved chemicals on the cocoa trees.<\/div>\n
Mr Frank Amamoo Antwi, the Sefwi Bekwai District Officer of COCOBOD, said farmers had treated a sizeable number of hectares through pruning, weeding and pollination with the help of the 1,030 rehabilitated farmhands in the district.<\/div>\n
Mr Antwi said the cooperative farmers association, made up of 91 workers, each cultivated four acres of land .<\/div>\n
The COCOBOD had also distributed 162,800 plantain suckers and cocoa seedlings to farmers recently and commended the Board for the intervention to boost cocoa production in the area.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kumikrom (WN\/R), April 15, GNA – The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is set to roll out an irrigation programme for farmers in cocoa growing areas to ensure an all-year round water supply for their farmlands in a bid to increase yield. The move has become necessary following drought in those areas, resulting in the withering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1057720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1569,1411,181,85,5300,1801,2757],"class_list":["post-1057719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-board","tag-boost","tag-cocoa","tag-ghana","tag-irrigation","tag-production","tag-sets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}