Ho — The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) will commit more than a third of the USD 600,000 loan it has secured from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to address the problem of swollen shoot diseases and over-aged cocoa trees in the country, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of COCOBOD, Mr Joseph Boahen-Aidoo has said.
"We will also do an assessment of the problem and see how it had impacted the lives of cocoa farmers and their families and seek solutions to the problems," he emphasised.
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