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How Cocoa is grown
• First there is preparation of the nursery bed before being transplanted to the gardens
• There is clearing the bush, dragging and ploughing the farms.
• The seedlings are then transplanted to the main farm.
• Seedlings are planted in the already dug holes, which are close together about 3 metres apart.
• The seedlings are given shelter from the blazing Sunshine.
• Constant weeding and manuring is done to improve to improve the quality and lengthen the life span of crop.
• A Cocoa tree takes an average of 3-5 years to mature. This also depends on the nature of the soil.
• The pods grow on both the trunk and the main branches. Two crops are harvested a year.
• There is clearing the bush, dragging and ploughing the farms.
• The seedlings are then transplanted to the main farm.
• Seedlings are planted in the already dug holes, which are close together about 3 metres apart.
• The seedlings are given shelter from the blazing Sunshine.
• Constant weeding and manuring is done to improve to improve the quality and lengthen the life span of crop.
• A Cocoa tree takes an average of 3-5 years to mature. This also depends on the nature of the soil.
• The pods grow on both the trunk and the main branches. Two crops are harvested a year.