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A total of 10,000 cocoa farmers from the Eastern and Volta regions, are receiving training in on-farm organic soil improvement and pest control mechanisms and management.
The training, spread across a three-year period, is being supported by the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBO) and the Yayra Glover Limited (YGL), a licensed organic cocoa producing and buying company, based at Suhum, in the Eastern Region.
The goal is to provide the farmers with the technics and skills on how to effectively apply organic fertilizers and pesticides on their farms to aid improved yield quality of cocoa beans.
Mr Yayrator Glover, Chief Executive Officer of the company, who made this known in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said so far 5,000 of these farmers have completed the training and have received certification as organic cocoa producers in Ghana.
He said YGL, one of the world’s leading producer and supplier of organic cocoa products, was committed to supporting Ghanaian cocoa farmers to engage in the natural processes in cocoa production.
“This would pave way for the country to gain international recognition and certification as a high standard organic cocoa producer”, he said.
Mr Glover said the increasing risks associated with the wrong use of chemical fertilizers to cause food poisoning to both the cocoa farmer and the cocoa consuming public, has necessitated the wide use of organic fertilizers.
