Knowledge, perception, and pesticide application practices among smallholder cocoa farmers in four Ghanaian cocoa-growing regions [PDF]
Toxicology Reports, 2023 Pesticides are widely used in Ghana, especially in cocoa farming. However, the practice is suboptimal and unsupervised. Incorrect use of these chemicals can seriously harm human health, the environment, and economies that rely on these farmers' output ...
Kwame Osei Boateng +5 more
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Effectiveness of public service program related cocoa fermentation sop in increasing the knowledge of cocoa farmer [PDF]
Journal of Community Service and Empowerment, 2023 Cocoa farmers in this area were not familiar with post-harvest processing, usually, the cocoa bean was sold directly without any fermentation. This public service objective provides information on good quality control of cocoa plant beans, such as ...
Hanif Alamudin Mansur +12 more
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Assessing the adaptive capacity of smallholder cocoa farmers to climate variability in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region, Ghana [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 This study assessed the adaptive capacity of smallholder cocoa farmers to address the adverse effects of climate variability in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region, Ghana.
Frank Baffour-Ata +7 more
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Study on Incentive Price of Fermented Cocoa to Overcome Reluctance of Farmer to Apply Fermentation : Case Study in Jembrana Regency [PDF]
Coffee and Cocoa Research Journal, 2015 Improving cocoa quality through encouraging farmers to do fermentation is one of the ways to increase the added value of cocoa. However, majority of Indonesian farmers are reluctance to do fermentation.
Joko Soemarno +3 more
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AGRISE, 2023 This study investigates whether cocoa cooperatives can significantly improve the revenue of cocoa farmers. A simple random sampling technique was adopted to draw a sample of 306 farmers from a population of 25,109 cocoa farmers in the Mankranso Cocoa ...
Felix Nketia Boadu +4 more
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Improving Support Systems for Cocoa Farmers beyond Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease Infestation
Jurnal Social Economic of Agriculture, 2023 Cocoa swollen shoot virus disease (CSSVD) has severely hampered the production of cocoa in Ghana since pre-colonial days. The Ghana Cocoa Board has put several measures in place to support cocoa farmers in the fight against the CSSVD.
Tetteh Adesah +3 more
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Shade Tree Selection in Cocoa Agroforestry: Ghanaian Farmers' Preferences, Ecological Insight and Drivers of Local Ecological Knowledge [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionIntegrating shade trees into cocoa farms potentially reduces the environmental cost of cocoa production and enhances their conservation value. However, it is unclear how farmers' shade trees preferences vary across cocoa production stage and how these ...
Michael Asigbaase +2 more
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Jurnal AgrisepSoutheast Sulawesi province, as one of the cocoa baskets and the center of the National Cocoa Movement (GERNAS), continues to experience a decline in cocoa production and land area. One factor is the widespread conversion of cocoa land.
Campina Illa Prihantini +7 more
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Organic cocoa farmer’s strategies and sustainability
Bio-based and Applied Economics, 2023 São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) is one of the world’s smallest organic cocoa exporting countries, whose product has a positive socio-cultural and economic impact. Small producers who ensure it, are associated into two cooperatives that experience several difficulties and dilemmas including climate changes and poverty.
Ibrahim Prazeres +3 more
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A Typology of Young Cocoa Farmers: Attitudes, Motivations and Aspirations
The European Journal of Development Research, 2022 This paper presents a typology to highlight and describe the variation in attitudes among young farmers in rural Ghana, a group that has been treated in policy discourses and in development practice as largely homogenous. It further identifies motivations and aspirations associated with each type.
Frederick Amon-Armah +3 more
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