Gov’t Projects $14 Billion Annually From Tree Crops

Gov’t Projects $14 Billion Annually From Tree Crops The establishment of the Tree Crop Development Authority (TCDA), in line with the government efforts to formalize the tree crop sector, as well as ensuring a reliable price mechanism within the sector and others, is estimated to turn over some $14 billion annually. According to the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, “this is on the assumption that each of the selected Tree Crops can generate $2 billion dollars annually just like cocoa.” Already, he said, a total of 220,257 farmers have enrolled onto the programme while a total of 235,850 hectares of…