Sentences with phrase «into cocoa production»

Overall, 20 of the areas had illegal cocoa plantations and approximately 74 percent of the total land in these areas was transformed into cocoa production.

The researchers surveyed 23 protected areas in the West African nation between 2010 and 2013 and found that about three - quarters of the land in them had been transformed into cocoa production.

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Dr Akoto said the smuggling of cocoa and its subsidised inputs into neighbouring countries as a direct consequence of the input distribution system and the product pricing policies of the government, as well as the refusal of the government to pay annual production bonuses to farmers, was the other factor inhibiting growth in the cocoa sub-sector.