National Democratic Congress (NDC) bigwig, Sam P. Yalley is urging government to ensure the processing of the country’s cocoa beans for exports in order to allow for value addition and to maximize the potential of the sector. ‘’For how long are we going to stay where we are and don’t do what is right? If […]
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Cooking with tin tomatoes and tinapa makes the food sexy-Kwesi Pratt weeps for cocoa farmers
Managing editor of the insight newspaper and pan Africanist, Kwesi Pratt Junior has said cooking with tin tomatoes and tinapa (Sardine) makes the meal sexy. Mr. Pratt who was contributing to a radio discussion on the plight of cocoa farmers in the country on an Accra based radio station opined that the cocoa farmers spend […]
Cocoa prices: Minority accuse government of shortchanging cocoa farmers, promises to do better if elected in 2020
The Minority in Parliament has chided government for its poor handling of the Cocoa Sector and described figures released by the Minister for Agriculture and the Ghana Cocobod as the proce of the commodity on the world market as false. The Minority which held a press conference today with a focus on the producer price […]
Cocoa: Ghana’s cocoa farmers earn GH₵1,000 more than their Ivorian counterparts
Cocoa farmers in Ghana will earn GH₵1,000 more than their counterparts in La Cote d’Ivoire for the producer price of the commodity in the 2018/2019 crop season which opened on October 1, 2018. This is in spite of Cote d’Ivoire, the world’s top cocoa producer, increasing guaranteed price it pays farmers by seven per cent– […]
BA/R: Minority NDC to hold press conference on Cocoa prices tomorrow October 3 2018
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) minority in parliament is poised to hold a press conference in the Brong Ahafo Regional Capital, Sunyani tomorrow, October 3, 2018 on the cocoa sector. The NDC is accusing the government and Ghana Cocobod of making cocoa farmers worse off with the decision to maintain the price per ton of […]
Cocobod CEO woos farmers, promises measures to make them profitable
The Chief Executive Officer of Cocobod, Mr. Joseph Boahen Aidoo has extolled the members and leadership of the Ghana Cocoa, coffee and sheanut farmers association to consider the trade as serious business that should yield profit for them. According Mr. Aidoo, it is the commitment of the current government under the leadership of president Nana […]