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Apr
COCOBOD Research Reveals Widespread Destruction Of Cocoa Farms Due To Galamsey Research by the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has revealed a widespread loss of cocoa farms to illegal small-scale mining activities, popularly known as galamsey. 80 per cent of selected cocoa farms in the Western, Ashanti and Eastern Regions were found to have been devastated by illegal mining. Per the latest statistics, over 19,000 acres out of the over 20,000 cocoa-farm acreages selected in these regions were ravaged by the galamsey menace between 2019 and 2020. At a Cocoa-Galamsey Talk in Accra on Friday, analysts predicted far-reaching consequences on Ghana’s…