Bunso Cocoa College

Bunso Cocoa College is the premier training college of the Ghana Cocoa Board. It was established in 1950 at Bunso as the Agricultural Training School under the Department of Agriculture's Cocoa Division, to train field assistants for the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease Control Programme. In 1977, the school was upgraded to the status of a college and began a 3-year certificate course in General Agriculture with specialization in Cocoa and Coffee production for trainee Senior Technical Assistants. This course was run concurrently with Field Assistants and other senior staff. The course was phased out in 1984 during the Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme. The college now concentrates on short-term training programmes for staff of the Divisions and Subsidiaries of COCOBOD. It also organizes refresher courses for technical (field) staff of the Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) and the Seed Production Division (SPD) as well as other courses for the COCOBOD Head Office and its subsidiaries