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Tetteh Quarshie (c. 1842 – 25 December 1892) was a agriculturalist in the British Colony of Gold Coast and the person directly responsible for the introduction of cocoa crops to Gold Coast, which today constitute one of the major export crops of the Ghanaian economy, the country Gold Coast became in 1957.
The Tetteh Quarshie cocoa farm, also known as the Ecomuseum of Cocoa, is the founding cocoa farm in Ghana. It is located in Akuapim-Mampong around 58km from Accra. Tetteh Quarshie established the farm in 1879 using seeds brought back from Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. [2] Three trees planted by Quarshie remain at the farm. [3]
Cocoa beans and cocoa harvest processing. Ghana's cocoa production grew an average of 16 per cent between 2000 and 2003. [18] Cocoa has a long production cycle, far longer than many other tropical crops, and new hybrid varieties need over five years to come into production, and a further 10 to 15 years for the tree to reach its full bearing potential.
The production of cocoa was largely in the hands of Africans. [113] The Cocoa Marketing Board was created in 1947 to assist farmers and to stabilise the production and sale of their crop. By the end of that decade, the Gold Coast was exporting more than half of the world's cocoa supply. [112]
In 2021, Ghana grew 1 million tons of cocoa. But it exported most of that to Europe and North America, where it was turned into chocolate. And the big bucks are in chocolate. Trapped in a trade ...
Azikiwe had attended Lincoln University, ... and cattle-breeding expanded, production of cocoa (Ghana's ... while free health care and education were introduced ...
The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It is the oldest public university in the country. It is the oldest public university in the country. The university was founded in 1948 [ 4 ] as the University College of the Gold Coast [ 5 ] [ 6 ] in the British colony of the Gold Coast .
Ebenezer Oduro Owusu was born to Ebenezer Owusu Okyere who hails from Mpraeso-Kwahu and Florence Ekua Soma Intsiful (deceased), who was from Elmina. [2] He started his elementary school education at the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) Primary School, Akim Tafo, from where he proceeded to St Peter's Secondary School, Nkwatia Kwahu for his Ordinary Level School Certificate.