Other Plant Disease -- Ghana
The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) is to rehabilitate a total of 10 000 hectares [24 700 acres] of diseased and overage cocoa farms [which] will involve the removal of 11 million trees for replanting. Currently, about 17 per cent of cocoa area surveyed, about 309 831 hectares [765 600], is affected by the cocoa swollen shoot virus disease (CSSVD) while about 23 per cent is more than 30 years and unproductive.
Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) said they would commence another survey to
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