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Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, uses a blade mounted on a long stick to cut cocoa pods of a tree on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The tool is used to cut off cocoa pods that grow at various heights and are sometimes unreachable by hand. The pods are then collected by another farm worker and carried out of the plantation to a location where the pods will be cracked.

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Olivier Asselin
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Ghana Cocoa Farming
Cocoa farmer Lawson Lanquaye Mensah, 70, uses a blade mounted on a long stick to cut cocoa pods of a tree on his farm in the town of Assin Adadientem, roughly 100km west of Ghana's capital Accra on Sat. January 21, 2007. The tool is used to cut off cocoa pods that grow at various heights and are sometimes unreachable by hand. The pods are then collected by another farm worker and carried out of the plantation to a location where the pods will be cracked.