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President Nana Akufo-Addo says successive administrations of the New Patriotic Party have stood out for proposing innovative policies and interventions in the cocoa sector.
According to him, the administration of former President Kufour, in addition to his own, “has stood out for proposing innovative policies and interventions in the sector.”
Cacao Pest and Disease Control (CODAPEC) and Hi-Tech (fertilizer), the
The president stated, they were introduced under the Kufuor presidency between 2001 and 2008.
Speaking at a ceremony to launch the Cocoa Rehabilitation Program on Thursday, September 24, 2020, in Sefwi Wiawso, on an ongoing tour of the North West Region, Akufo-Addo stated that his Government has introduced programs aimed at sustaining the industry. and improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers and their dependents.
These policies include the remodeling and deepening of the Cacao Pest and Disease Control Program (CODAPEC); rationalization of the HI-TECH Program to guarantee equitable access to fertilizers and other agricultural inputs, as well as to facilitate the formation of groups and cooperatives of cocoa producers throughout the country, which have registered more than three thousand (3,000) of them in the Department. of Cooperatives; and introduction of the new early or spring mass fumigation policy.
The rest is the introduction of the novel manual pollination program; introduction of the massive pruning exercise; introduction of motorized trimmers and weed trimmers, also a new policy; introduction of irrigation in cocoa farms, which is about to be expanded from pilot tests; and the enhanced cocoa rehabilitation program, which the President launched that day.
President Akufo-Addo told attendees that, since taking office
about three years and nine months ago, the government “did not give up in our quest to give the cocoa industry the necessary boost and
the facelift you deserve. “
