Mr Michael Gyasi, Suhum District Cocoa Officer, has observed that the mass cocoa spraying exercise introduced by the government eight years ago, could help increase the crop yield if farmers embrace it.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency, after a farmers rally at Kuano near Suhum in the Eastern Region, Mr Gyasi said the exercise was part of a
high-tech cocoa production method.
The District Officer expressed concern that some cocoa farmers failed to allow their farms to be sprayed although they were infested with the capsid virus that destroy cocoa beans.
Mr Gyasi said the introduction of the high-tech programme was a testimony of government's determination to help improve the cocoa industry so as to reduce poverty among the farmers.