Nana Kwesi Ofori, Central Regional Chief Farmer has cautioned cocoa spraying gangs and officials not to divert the free fertilizers and chemicals meant for farmers.

He also urged the farmers to track down such miscreants within the mass cocoa spraying exercise to help increase cocoa production in the coming years.

Nana Ofori commended government for distributing free fertilizers and urged that the supply of the Akate Master Chemicals for the mass spraying exercise is increased.

Mr Philip Bedzra, the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Director of the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease, in a speech read on his behalf, spelt out the criteria for the free fertilizers to the farmers.

He urged the farmers to regularly maintain their farms to increase yields.