Tetteh Quarshie Still Lives After Solid 140 Years
He was the first Ghanaian to introduce cocoa crops to the West African Country
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The Tetteh Quarshie original Cultivated Cocoa Seedlings in the year 1879 are still alive.
The Cocoa Farm is a 0.38 hectre farm which was nurtured from original cocoa seeds from Fernando Po an Island off the coast of the Equatorial Guinea in 1879 by Tetteh Quarshie after he returned to Ghana, the then Gold Coast.
It is located at Mampong, in the Akwapim North Municipal of the Eastern Region of Ghana.
The farm however was re-planted in the year 1960 several years after the death of Tetteh Quarshie, which includes a few of the original cocoa trees cultivated on the farm land by himself.
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Later on, other cocoa farms were established spreading cocoa to the other parts of the country and subsequently making the Gold Coast and now Ghana, a global power house in cocoa beans production.
The Ministry of Tourism, Art and Culture in collaboration with the Ghana Tourism Authority and the government of Ghana have established an Exhibition Centre which includes a tourist Information Centre,Two exhibition halls, an audiovisual orientation room, a gift shop, new perimeter fencing and new washrooms.
