About 81 percent of Ghana’s northwest region — the hub of the country’s cocoa production — was infected with the disease, according to a June ICCO report citing Ghanaian government data.

Diseases known to attack cocoa as listed by infonet-biovision.org ... are controlled by planting in well-drained places, removing infected pods and harvesting regularly. The beans are then removed ...

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