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But agriculture modernisation efforts have encouraged the development of "full-sun" monocrop plantations that only focus on growing cocoa beans, without the use of companion plants or trees.

"We should have seen the mid-crop on trees and in fields around November ... activity really take off," he added. Farms have no cocoa beans ready for harvest, "just one or two pods here and ...