THE Produce Buying Company (PBC) has distributed 5,121 mosquito nets to farmers in various cocoa-growing centres in the Volta Region at a ceremony at Bodada in the Jasikan District.
Mr Prosper Segbla, Volta Regional Manager of the PBC, who made the presentation, said the government was doing its best to boost cocoa production to enable the country to hit the one million tonne target in the next two years.
He said due to smuggling activities, only 1,000 tonnes of cocoa beans were bought in the region in spite of the good harvest brought about by the mass spraying exercise and provision of other inputs aimed at boosting production.
This was out of the 700,000 tonnes recorded nationwide last year.
He lamented that due to smuggling in the region, incentives due to farmers were denied them, adding that last year for instance, the region had only six Ghana Cocoa Board scholarship awards as compared to Sankore, a cocoa-growing community in the Brong Ahafo, which had 300.
On boreholes, he said the region had only five, adding that the government was prepared to respond to the needs of the people if they identified themselves with it.
Mr Segbla also announced that funds had been released for the payment of bonus this year aimed at improving cocoa production in the country.
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