Area
Ghana
Commodity Group
Oilseeds, oils and meals
Commodity
Coconut
Date
01/02/2019
Policy Category
Production
Policy Instrument
Sector development measures
Description
Renewed its efforts to promote the cultivation of coconut as a cash crop for export and domestic consumption. Support measures include the free distribution of hybrid coconut seedlings in the countrys coastal Central Region.
Notes
Ghanas Ministry of Agriculture renewed its efforts to promote the cultivation of coconut as a cash crop for export and domestic consumption. Under the Ministrys Planting for Export and Rural Development initiative, PERD, hybrid coconut seedlings (resistant to the Cape St. Paul wilt disease and of high-yielding type) are distributed for free to smallholders in the countrys coastal Central Region.
