The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of COCOBOD, Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has engaged and sensitsed farmers in some selected cocoa growing communities in the Ashanti region on good practices and methods of cocoa farming to ensure increase in productivity.
The CEO visited farmers' groups in the Antoakrom, Obuasi and Adansi Asokwa and other surrounding communities in the Obuasi Municipality and in the Adansi Akrofuom, Amansie West, and some districts in the Ashanti region.
Addressing the farmers at their respective community's engagement, Mr Aidoo stated that the COCOBOD prioritised the concerns of cocoa farmers, hence the engagement.
He said the cocoa industry was the backbone of Ghana's economy and COCOBOD would ensure that farmers were always supported and motivated to increase yield to contribute their quota to the economic growth of the country and to also take care of their families.