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Aug
Government has secured a US$200million World Bank fund to support the tree crops sector and facilitate research and development into new varieties, improve value addition and increase cultivation capacity. The funding support aims to scale up and increase the tree crop or cash crop sector’s contribution to gross domestic product, as part of the measures to diversify the sector away from cocoa to other equally commercial crops like cashew and rubber trees, among others. According to the deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Yaw Frimpong Addo – who disclosed this at the Ghana Coconut Festival third edition launch in…