Sentences with phrase «of cocoa plantations»

In 2017, hundreds of hectares of cocoa plantations were destroyed by the activities of miners across the country, with cocoa farms in the Eastern, Western and Ashanti regions being the worst affected.

COCOBOD has expressed its displeasure with the recent rise in the level of devastation of cocoa plantations by both legal and illegal mining firms.

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These children — some of whom are trafficked from countries with lower incomes like Mali and Burkina Faso — work 10 hours a day on cocoa plantations, often times without pay.

Unlike many plantation crops, like rubber and oil palm, cocoa can be grown with a diverse mixture of other plants.

There is long - running legal action in the United States brought on behalf of former child slaves who worked on cocoa plantations.

It's the company that makes much of sourcing less than 3 % of its cocoa through Fairtrade - certified suppliers, while fighting a legal battle against former child slaves who hold it responsible for their treatment on cocoa plantations in Sierra Leone.

Earlier, Minister of Agriculture, Chief Innocent Audu Ogbeh who described the flag - off ceremony as the beginning of agricultural revolution in the country, said stage has already been set to ensure massive plantation of cocoa, plantain and banana across the nation.

«It also signifies the beginning of agricultural revolution in the country as we are seriously bent to ensure massive plantation of cashew, cocoa, plantain, banana and other agricultural farm produce across the nation.

Some of these federal offerings which other states are taking full advantage of but which Ekiti government has so far refused to participate in include the free rice mill programme, the free school feeding programme, the cocoa plantation renewal scheme, the free tractor and land clearing programmes, the rice outgrower scheme, among others.

He said that the machine would also provide work opportunities for the unemployed youths in cocoa plantations, thereby stemming rural - urban migration of the people.

To reach the cages, we follow the main highway out of town, driving past soy, cocoa, banana and lustrous dark - green mango plantations thriving in the rich volcanic soil.

Cacao plantations (which produce cocoa) produce a heavier layer of this leaf litter.

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.

Many of the older, legal cocoa plantations in the country have been blighted by disease or otherwise haven't produced at the same levels as previously, which has led some growers to establish new farms in the reserves.

, featuring the story of one young African boy who was used for slave labor in a cocoa plantation along the Ivory Coast, will get him a Pulitzer Prize.

They illustrate the principles of fair trade using stories from the Global Gang children's website that feature two boys from Ghana and Brazil who work on cocoa plantations.

There have been cocoa plantations on St Lucia for more than 200 years, and the industry produces some of the finest chocolate in the world.

Throughout the trip we will see and visit: cocoa and coffee plantation, palm trees then look intercepts in the manufacture of traditional drink (tuak, arak) and palm sugar (gula Bali), past rice field, learn about the subak.

La Sikwi (which is Creole for sugar mill) is located within the gardens of a 400 - acre banana cocoa plantation belonging to the Invergoil Estate, a short... Read More

Harnessing the nourishing properties of nearby volcanic springs and fertile cocoa plantations, the Rainforest Spa offers a range of signature treatments — in addition to nourishing rituals from Natura Bisse, and indulgent products from Swiss line, Valmont — designed to connect guests to Sugar Beach, A Viceroy Resort's very special location.

She visits chocolate festivals and attractions, chocolate spas and resorts, and cocoa plantations, and of course, indulges in cocoa cuisine too — and shares her findings and experiences in a casual conversational style.

On the return, travel through Manzanilla, cocoa plantations and Virgin Forest all on the East Coast of the island.

This lodge owns a 3.5 ha of an intense secondary forest and cocoa plantations with over 25 years of planting.

This place is rich in biodiversity has 3.5 ha of an intense secondary forest and cocoa plantations with over 25 years of planting.

Travel by zip line through the low, jungle - covered mountains of this region or visit local sugar cane, coffee and cocoa plantations.

Ingredients such as sugar, cocoa, vanilla, coffee, and bananas all have long histories of injustice, from centuries of slavery on Caribbean plantations to corporate takeovers and abuses to pitifully low and unlivable wages.