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“I must say we are not happy with the destruction of cocoa plantations and if COCOBOD had powers on land use, we would say that no one should destroy cocoa farms for any other cultivation. But unfortunately we do not have that power,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mr. Amenya also pleaded with traditional authorities and other stakeholders not to sell out cocoa plantations and land earmarked for cocoa farms.<\/p>\n
“We are appealing to opinion leaders that cocoa has helped this country over a period of time. We have seen scholarships for school children, we have seen roads being constructed from cocoa proceeds so, therefore, we should guard cocoa farms instead of allowing illegal miners and rubber companies to have access to cocoa lands. We will suffer in the long run if care is not taken. We will continue to advocate and plead with traditional rulers, chiefs and stakeholders not to sell out cocoa farms to companies whose activities will not generate the relevant benefits and revenue that cocoa generates for this country.”<\/p>\n
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By: Neil Nii Amatey Kanarku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
COCOBOD has expressed its displeasure with the recent rise in the level of devastation of cocoa plantations by both legal and illegal mining firms. In 2017, hundreds of hectares of cocoa plantations were destroyed by the activities of miners across the country, with cocoa farms in the Eastern, Western and Ashanti regions being the worst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":401614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[295,1928,150,3],"yoast_head":"\n