19
Jun
The management of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has said it is working to improve the condition of cocoa farmers to enable them to resist enticing offers from illegal small-scale miners (Galamseyers) from selling the farmlands to them. Head of Public Affairs of COCOBOD Stephen Fiifi Boafo told Johnnie Hughes on the Sunrise show on 3FM Monday June 19 that the temptation is what is driving the farmers to sell their lands to the galamseyers. Fifi Boafo indicated that day in, day out COCOBOD receives reports of people taking over cocoa farms and using the lands for illegal mining. “So day in and day out there…