date:Jun 22, 2012
term viability of the cocoa farm by reducing rates of tree mortality.
Fertilisers such as chicken manure is currently used by only 3% of farmers in both countries combined, said Ruf, and useis subsided by the government in Ghana, but no such subsidies exist in the Ivory Coast.
The study said that it came as no surprise that the level of fertiliser purchases by cocoa farmers was close to nil in the Ivory Coast between the mid to late 2000s.
Industry action
Chocolate manufacturers and other in