{"id":17791,"date":"2019-12-25T20:55:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T20:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=17791"},"modified":"2019-12-25T20:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T20:55:29","slug":"bechema-adjoafua-cocoa-road-crucial-cocobod-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/12\/25\/bechema-adjoafua-cocoa-road-crucial-cocobod-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bechema- Adjoafua cocoa road crucial &#8211; COCOBOD CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nsemgh.com<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Boahen Aidoo, the Chief Executive of COCOBOD, says the 38 kilometre stretch of cocoa road from Bechema Junction to Adjoafua, in the Western North Region, is very crucial to the operations of COCOBOD and for the sustenance of cocoa production in the country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cClose to 50% of our cocoa are transported on this stretch of road\u201d, the COCOBOD boss said, \u201cthereby, making the construction of the Bechema Junctio<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">n to Adjoafua road, very important to COCOBOD\u2019s operations\u201dhe stressed.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Hon. Aidoo, made this known in a statement delivered during a sod-cutting ceremony for construction work to promptly commence on the road. Also, at the ceremony was the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who cut the sod for the project.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo1.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The construction is wholly funded by COCOBOD, under its Cocoa Roads Project with supervision from the Ministry of Roads and Highways and the Ghana Highways Authority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Aidoo was confident that the road will be completed on time and when completed the road will go a long way to support the Board&#8217;s on-going Productivity Enhancement Programmes (PEPs) which were already yielding massive results in the region as over 7,500 hectares of diseased cocoa farms had been treated and replanted in the Western North Region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo3-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/aidoo3.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026it is with pride that I wish to inform you that the cocoa farms rehabilitation programme is making significant progress &#8230;and when the road is finally put to good shape and the rehabilitated farms begin to produce cocoa, transporting the cocoa beans will be done without any difficulties\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nsemgh.com Joseph Boahen Aidoo, the Chief Executive of COCOBOD, says the 38 kilometre stretch of cocoa road from Bechema Junction to Adjoafua, in the Western North Region, is very crucial to the operations of COCOBOD and for the sustenance of cocoa production in the country. \u201cClose to 50% of our cocoa are transported on this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[211,946,11815,1747,5262,1262,192,1976,611,7964,67,1137,3805,13301,2802,4490,3954,10415,594],"class_list":["post-17791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bawumia","tag-cocoa","tag-cocoa-beans","tag-cocobod","tag-cut","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana","tag-joseph-boahen-aidoo","tag-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-north","tag-nsemgh","tag-nsemgh-com","tag-president","tag-results","tag-vice-president","tag-western-north","tag-will","tag-work","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}