Sentences with phrase «increase cocoa production»

He said government intended to increase cocoa production from 750,000 tons to one million tons this cocoa season.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur says the focus of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government for the next four years is to increase cocoa production from the current 750 thousand metric tonnes to more than 1.5 million metric tonnes.

Not exact matches

In response to rising demand in the chocolate industry and reduce dependency on imports, Indian cocoa producers have said they will increase domestic cocoa production by 60 per cent in the next four years.

This «mass balance» model of production allows companies to buy more cocoa from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms, which means that farmers, the environment, and cocoa - growing communities benefit from companies» increasing purchases.

«The use of the machine by cocoa farmers will boost the efforts of farmers to increase production, while it will also boost government's efforts to revolutionise cocoa production,» he said.

Paschal Dere, the Lawra District Chief Executive, said the butternut squash had the potential of becoming the cocoa of the north if massive investment was made to increase production.

Mr Aidoo said the fortunes of cocoa processing factories would improve with the increase in cocoa production target of more than one million metric tonnes per year.

In keeping with this, recent studies showed that flavanols, a subclass of flavonoids that is richly represented in natural cocoa beans, increase NO production by cultured human vascular endothelial cells (16) and improve endothelium - dependent vasorelaxation (NO - dependent) in finger (2) and brachial (3) arteries of healthy humans.

He said cocoa farmers are encouraged to engage in climate smart cocoa production by plating improved seeds and increasing the number of forest trees per ha of cocoa at least 19 trees per ha.