AreaGhana

Commodity GroupOilseeds, oils and meals

CommodityCoconut

Date01/02/2019

Policy CategoryProduction

Policy InstrumentSector development measures

DescriptionRenewed 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 country’s coastal Central Region.

NotesGhana’s Ministry of Agriculture renewed its efforts to promote the cultivation of coconut as a cash crop for export and domestic consumption. Under the Ministry’s 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 country’s coastal Central Region.