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Tetteh Quarshie
Pre-independence Ghanaian agriculturist (c–)
Tetteh Quarshie (c. – 25 December ) was a agriculturalist in the British Colony of Gold Coast and 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, the country Gold Coast became in Quarshie travelled to the island of Fernando Po (now Bioko in Equatorial Guinea) in and returned in to Ghana in order to introduce the crop.
He died on Christmas Day
Biography
Tetteh Quarshie was born in about to a farmer from Teshie known as Mlekubo.
Tetteh quarshie family
His mother was known as Ashong-Fio from Labadi, both hailing from the Ga-Dangme ethnic group. In his teens Tetteh Quarshie became an apprentice in a Basel Mission workshop at Akropong. Due to his hard work he soon became a master blacksmith and was in fact the first blacksmith to be established at Akuapim-Mampong.[1] His hobby was farming.
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