{"id":236184,"date":"2026-06-13T05:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-volta-region-cocoa-farmers-receive-400000-free-seedlings\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T05:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:50:18","slug":"ghana-volta-region-cocoa-farmers-receive-400000-free-seedlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-volta-region-cocoa-farmers-receive-400000-free-seedlings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Volta Region Cocoa Farmers Receive 400,000 Free Seedlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Afarinick Company Limited (ACL) has distributed more than 400,000 improved cocoa seedlings free of charge to farmers across the Volta Region to boost cocoa cultivation in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The exercise took place at the company&#8217;s flagship cocoa project site at Kpando, where it has established a 2,000-acre sustainable commercial cocoa plantation, said to be the largest in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The seedlings, developed from improved cocoa varieties, are designed to produce higher yields, offer better resistance to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606120377.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afarinick Company Limited (ACL) has distributed more than 400,000 improved cocoa seedlings free of charge to farmers across the Volta Region to boost cocoa cultivation in the area. The exercise took place at the company&#8217;s flagship cocoa project site at Kpando, where it has established a 2,000-acre sustainable commercial cocoa plantation, said to be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,3029,3030,6544,4508,4509,257,8609,6324,22308,254,16698],"class_list":["post-236184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cocoa","tag-farmers","tag-free","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-receive","tag-region","tag-seedlings","tag-south-africa-today","tag-volta"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}