Cocoa Farming Project

The Diocese can boast of cocoa farms (greater portion of which is being replanted) and vast tracts of arable land for the cultivation of crops like cocoa, oil-palm, cassava, citrus, etc. Efforts are being made to find some capital to begin large scale farming on the church’s land, and a 200-acre land acquired from the Chief of Esase in the Akontombra District. The Diocese is situated in the forest region of Ghana. The inhabitants are rural dwellers and basically subsistent farmers. A few of them have small cocoa farms of which many of the cocoa trees have been cut down and now under recultivation. As a result, majority of the people are relatively poor. Their contribution in terms of money at church is relatively minimal.