Tetteh Quarshie, born around 1842 and died December 25, 1892, was an agriculturist in the British Colony of Gold Coast who introduced cocoa cultivation to the territory that became Ghana. He traveled to the island of Fernando Po, now Bioko in Equatorial Guinea, in 1870 and returned in 1876 with cocoa seeds, planting them at Mampong in 1879 and founding what became one of the major export crops of the Ghanaian economy; between 1910 and 1980 Ghana was the world's largest cocoa exporter, at times supplying almost half of world output.
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Defining ContributionIntroduced cocoa cultivation to the Gold Coast 1 Partially Attested
Birth YearSource gives the birth year as approximate, c. 1842 Sources
1. Tetteh Quarshie, Wikipedia
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Tetteh Quarshie (Ga: Tette Kuarshi, c. 1842 - 25 December 1892) was an agriculturalist in the British Colony of Gold Coast
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Tetteh Quarshie (Ga: Tette Kuarshi, c. 1842 - 25 December 1892) was an agriculturalist in the British Colony of Gold Coast
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Tetteh Quarshie (Ga: Tette Kuarshi, c. 1842 - 25 December 1892) was an agriculturalist in the British Colony of Gold Coast
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the person directly responsible for the introduction of cocoa crops to Gold Coast, which today constitute one of the major export crops of the Ghanaian economy.
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