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Pruning in Cocoa is an important husbandry practice. Cocoa as a tree crop produces many leaves and branches to enable it compete with other trees, shrubs and herbs. The more leaves and branches produced by a Cocoa tree, the less the amount of nutrients available for the production of pods and finally the number of matured pods which will be harvested.
Cocoa (food of the gods) is a foreign exchange earner of many economies in the world including Ghana. The slide show above displays several growth stages of Cocoa seedlings and matured trees of the Cocoa plant.
A must watch slideshow on Ghana’s Cocoa beans processing at the farmgate before transportation to the port for shipment. Good fermentation and drying greatly affects the quality of Cocoa beans.