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title: "Instructions: National Identification Requirements for Cocoa Groups in Ghana, Côte D’Ivoire, Cameroon, and Nigeria"
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# Instructions: National Identification Requirements for Cocoa Groups in Ghana, Côte D’Ivoire, Cameroon, and Nigeria

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These instructions contain information for certificate holders to implement the requirements related to the collection of National Identification (ID) numbers for farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon.

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