Ghana Targets Ivory Coast’s Top Cocoa Spot With Free Trees

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Ghana, the world’s second-biggest cocoa producer, will hand out free seedlings to farmers as it seeks to exceed neighboring Ivory Coast as the top grower of the chocolate ingredient, said Finance Minister Kwabena Duffuor.

“I proposed 20 million seedlings each year for five years,” Duffuor said in an interview at a cocoa conference in Accra, the capital, today.