They have been followed by cocoa farmers fleeing exhausted land elsewhere.
To finance the debt, he raised taxes on the cocoa farmers in the south.
It was based on her work on migrant cocoa farmers.
The nation was forced in early July to cut its guaranteed price to cocoa farmers by 37.5 percent.
The critical report led partly to the abolishment of a loan scheme that was open to cocoa farmers.
Many cocoa farmers get a low price for their products.
The relative poverty of many cocoa farmers means that environmental consequences such as deforestation are given little significance.
In general, the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides by cocoa farmers is limited.
In 1944 he formed the country's first agricultural trade union for African cocoa farmers like himself.
To be an organic cocoa farmer you must maintain 20 percent of original forest on their farms.