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ITN Roving Report: Ghana; SEQUENCE general views of cocoa plants and trees with men using machettes to cut off the pods, some close ups/ Men using long poles to shake the pods off the trees/ Close up cocoa pod broken open and beans seen inside scooped out with fingers Cocoa workers sitting on ground beside baskets as working at taking the beans out of the pods, close up of pods broken open and sticky beans pulled out and added to others in basket Basket of beans picked up and put on mans head and carried away to another area where they are tipped out onto large banana leaves/ Man covering piles of cocoa beans with the large banana leaves Close up slab of eight pieces of chocolate in white hand as three cocoa pods held in black hand Front of buildings with letters WACRI on fascia (West African Cocoa Research Institute) INT Men looking through microscopes and making notes EXT Equipment set up by cocoa trees with one man making notes and the other using a geigercounter by sign 'Danger Radiation'; geigercounter over leaves of the trees, close up reading dial moving Man in overalls mask and goggles along track betwen cocoa trees as spraying with diesel engine smoke gun to kills capsid bugs which feed on the sap General views of men using machettes to cut down cocoa trees infected with Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus (CSSV) Robin Day along through plantation with men from the research institute/ Close up cocoa pod on branch/ Close up branch showing Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus, close up capsid bugs on leaf