The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahene Aidoo, has expressed worry over the shifting weather patterns and it’s negative impact for the sector.
The situation he warned could lead to significant losses in cocoa yield.
He lamented that the impact of the extreme weather conditions on Ghana’s cocoa production outputs would be in negative.
“Our cocoa farms have been affected by the extremes of the weather conditions caused by excessive rains and then excessive dryness. It is definitely going to affect production.
But it is only coming to exacerbate an existing systemic problem. Systemic problems had to do with cocoa swollen shoot disease. That is the main driver of the decrease of production of cocoa in Ghana.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
