Cocoa farmers under-going training in modern agronomic practices

The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), an advocacy group against the use of child labour on cocoa farms, is establishing Cocoa Farmers’ Field Schools in some selected cocoa-growing communities in the country, to train cocoa farmers on modern agronomic practices to help increase crop yield and boost incomes of cocoa farmers.

The aim is to expose the farmers to and help them adopt new and modern planting techniques, proper farm maintenance practices, as well as the use and application of approved fertilizers and agro-chemicals on their farms.
Mr Prince Gyamfi, a Programme Associate of ICI, told the Ghana News Agency, that the objective of the project is to help cocoa farmers increase crop yield in their farms, boost incomes, cater properly for their families, send and maintain their children in schools.
An increased income would also enable the cocoa farmers hire adult labourers to work on their farms instead of using their children as labourers.
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