Captain George Nfodjo (rtd), the Member of Parliament for Ho Central, on Wednesday presented Wellington boots and cutlasses to over 300 farmers in the constituency as part of his initiative to encourage the farmers to reactivate their cocoa farms.
The Seed Production Division of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture would supply cocoa seedlings to the farmers as part of the initiative.
Presenting the items to the farmers, Capt Nfodjo said until the devastating nationwide bushfires in 1983 the constituency was a major cocoa growing area.
He urged the youth in the constituency to go into cocoa farming.
Capt Nfodjo pledged to subsidize the cost of cultivation from his HIPC Fund for anyone who cultivated more than two acres and added that 10 layer cages for birds were also being worked on for poultry farmers.
Source: GNA
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