Sackey is currently planting oil palm seedlings ... trees and plant new ones to increase production, especially as farms are ravaged by diseases. Like other cocoa farmers, Mensah has diversified ...

But when falling world prices and a pest called the cocoa-pod borer made the crop less profitable, most plantations switched to oil palms. Land was cheap, so companies from the Malaysian mainland ...

Consequently, as disease ravaged farms and production plummeted, farmers begun replacing cocoa trees with more sustainable palm oil plants, further exacerbating supply issues for confectionary ...