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TCDA to adopt Upper West’s MATCO mango farm as northern prototype, issues warning against felling shea trees
The Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA) has announced plans to adopt the MATCO Mango Plantation in the Upper West Region as its model farm for the northern sector to spearhead commercial mango cultivation, train young people and women, and accelerate agricultural industrialisation.
Dr Okrah noted that while southern and eastern belts such as Somanya had traditionally dominated the commercial mango sector, the Upper West Region possessed immense soil and agronomic potential to drive Ghana’s economic transformation through tree crops.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Authority, Dr Andy Osei Okrah, disclosed this during a working tour of the region, which included an official call on the Upper West Regional Minister at the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) in Wa and a detailed assessment of the 50-acre MATCO Mango Plantation.
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