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Farm Rehabilitation & Training Photos

More than 200 Acres have been rehabilitated so far as JCFA embarks on a process to have 400 hectares of cocoa rehabilitated. Below are a series of pictures that captured JCFA employees and a group of farmers in St. Thomas at one of its field days which was conducted on nine of its member farms.

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Farmers at JCFA’s field day looks on as proper pruning techniques are demonstrated. JCFA’s Field Technician demonstrates how to identify fan branches during tree development.
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A Farmer at JCFA’s field day showing off what he haslearnt about pruning. A Farmer showing the proper way to remove a gormandizer.
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   JCFA is promoting gender equity.  Female farmers look on as they also learn proper pruning techniques.
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A Farmer successfully removes a gormandizer and watched it land safely to the ground away from other onlookers so that no one gets injured in the process.
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The proper way to remove a Gormandizer is demonstrated while Farmer Davis observes the process. Another Gormandizer is removed while another farmer joins in to observe the process.
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Farmer Jones removes the Gormandizer for himself to demonstrate to us what he has learned.

Here it is being pointed out that Gormandizers should be removed when necessary as they suck nutrients from the mother tree.

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