Let’s add value to raw materials before exporting – Spio-Garbrah

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• DONBOLI 9 years ago

  Ghanaians are suffering with no jobs and you turn and export raw materials to some one else to make the product.
  Ghanaians and government should think only about human being not Brick and Mortar.
  Ghana should be exporting C ...
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  Ghanaians are suffering with no jobs and you turn and export raw materials to some one else to make the product.
  Ghanaians and government should think only about human being not Brick and Mortar.
  Ghana should be exporting Chocolate Chocolate and Chocolate only. Exporting Cocoa beans make no sense.

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• DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago

  You just don't preach it, Spio-Garbrah. You put the effort in motion and make it happen.

  You just don't preach it, Spio-Garbrah. You put the effort in motion and make it happen.

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• Kwadaso 9 years ago

  Nigeria did something a while back which has transformed their economy and country." They stopped the incessant talking and actually started doing". Their habit of wildly exaggerated claims to greatness and delusions of grand ...
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  Nigeria did something a while back which has transformed their economy and country." They stopped the incessant talking and actually started doing". Their habit of wildly exaggerated claims to greatness and delusions of grandeur has been replaced with hard work and clear eyed pragmatism.They have organized their manufacturing and agricultural sectors not only to compliment each other and provide for their national consumption but also provide for disorganized economies like ours.So these days small and medium sized businesses are springing up like mushrooms in Nigeria and these are largely financed by the private financial sectors(all legal loans to businesses are insured and underwritten by their gov't). This is an approach which worked for Brazil, Malaysia,S.Korea,Japan,Germany,USA among other serious minded countries.We are tired of the campaign promises and lip services.Dr.Spio must understand that if he is not part of the solution then he is part of the problem.

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• Kwaku A. Danso 9 years ago

  Dear Kwadaso,
  
  Thank you!
  Sensible strategies!That is what is needed, not talk!
  Spio is a nice man and I like him but he has to help put the nail in the wood and act! Not talk!
  Even arch capitalist America provides GUAR ...
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  Dear Kwadaso,
  
  Thank you!
  Sensible strategies!That is what is needed, not talk!
  Spio is a nice man and I like him but he has to help put the nail in the wood and act! Not talk!
  Even arch capitalist America provides GUARANTEED low interest business loans through Banks at decent 4-5% or less interest now to Small and Medium Businesses.
  
  Why do our leaders and Ministers keep preaching and not act!
  
  IN Ghana interest rates at BAnks are 29% or higher and not enough money and hence needs to grease somebody's palm if you even get it; and those who get it don't pay back because they are all connected to government.
  
  Lets have house numbering and street addresses and personal ID numbers so Banks can reduce their risks and know where people live so if they don't pay they can track them down.
  SIMPLE THINGS every sensible person should know Ghanaian elected officials find it hard to implement!
  Why? Why? Why?
  SPIO! DO SOMETHING BEFORE YOU DIE!! (As some coup leader was once applauded)
  
  K. Danso

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• PIOTO 9 years ago

  It is so annoying when people in power come out with suggetions instead of policies or policies they designing to have a problem solved.Someone must tell them being a minister goes beyond using deplomatic passports and drivin ...
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  It is so annoying when people in power come out with suggetions instead of policies or policies they designing to have a problem solved.Someone must tell them being a minister goes beyond using deplomatic passports and driving flashy cars for free.It is work work work. Even Rihanna knows. Nonesense!!!!!!!!

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• Kwaku Acpoli 9 years ago

  If exporting were as easy as importing, Ghana could have been an export state. Whereas the importer waits for the goods in country and can even reject it when it arrives, the exporter has to have a product, make the product a ...
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  If exporting were as easy as importing, Ghana could have been an export state. Whereas the importer waits for the goods in country and can even reject it when it arrives, the exporter has to have a product, make the product acceptable to an importer somewhere in the world at a particular time, send to the importer at a particular price, at a particular place, at a particular quality,and get paid for in forex so that the item would not be classified as smuggle. We talk too much history.

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• PIOTO 9 years ago

  I was talking the minister of trade and industry developing policies that will help industrialists add value to our exports. I wasn't talking about the basics of international trade or the basic of international marketing tha ...
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  I was talking the minister of trade and industry developing policies that will help industrialists add value to our exports. I wasn't talking about the basics of international trade or the basic of international marketing that i studied when i was 9 years. I was expecting someone to counter this with an existing government policy not exactly what my 7 year old daughter was teaching me yesterday.

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• Saint Ghfuo: FREE YOUR PSYCHE 9 years ago

  U KNOW WAT TO DO BUT U JUST TALKING...KWASIA
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  U KNOW WAT TO DO BUT U JUST TALKING...KWASIA
  THIS ALL WHITE JERSEY IS TOO BORING. LACKS PERSONALITY N LOOKS LIKE HOTEL BEDSHEET. WE NEED PINSTRIPE JERSEYS LIKE THE NEW YORK YANKEE ALL WHITE PINSTRIPE JERSEYS. pinstripes jerseys, pinstripes shorts, pinstripe hoes…Pinstripes = tricks!!!.....GFA, ACT NOW! GOOGLE: NEW YORK YANKEES pinstripe jersey

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• WhenIdiotsRule 9 years ago

  These adhoc, stupid decisions must stop. You don't just get up and ban exports of raw material. It must follow extensive research; and consultations with farmers, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Trade and Customs Departm ...
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  These adhoc, stupid decisions must stop. You don't just get up and ban exports of raw material. It must follow extensive research; and consultations with farmers, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Trade and Customs Department.

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• Kwaku Acpoli 9 years ago

  We heard all these old jargon when we studied O/L economics seventy years ago. All those who keep on shouting should leave govt service and go to the private sector to experience what they shout should be done. AMEN

  We heard all these old jargon when we studied O/L economics seventy years ago. All those who keep on shouting should leave govt service and go to the private sector to experience what they shout should be done. AMEN

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• kweku appiah 9 years ago

  Thé cost of doing business is not attractive in Ghana. Labour is cheap, but net profit is crap. Why would investers not invest if thé area is attractive ? Tax inventives. Spio, yu are more intelligent that.

  Thé cost of doing business is not attractive in Ghana. Labour is cheap, but net profit is crap. Why would investers not invest if thé area is attractive ? Tax inventives. Spio, yu are more intelligent that.

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• Kwaku Acpoli 9 years ago

  Photo, I do not understand your point well, well. DId the 12 companies that had to close shop do any study, not even good study about how to produce cashew kernels and the cashew nuts they will get in Ghana? Theory and practi ...
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  Photo, I do not understand your point well, well. DId the 12 companies that had to close shop do any study, not even good study about how to produce cashew kernels and the cashew nuts they will get in Ghana? Theory and practice go together.

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• shepherd 9 years ago

  u knew this n cumin up wit it in jx months to election politricks...policies are far better dan suggestions. i just ghana suggest agric sector mov frm 0.04 to 10 nxt 2daes does it sound cool to u. go to the drawing board

  u knew this n cumin up wit it in jx months to election politricks...policies are far better dan suggestions. i just ghana suggest agric sector mov frm 0.04 to 10 nxt 2daes does it sound cool to u. go to the drawing board

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• Peace 9 years ago

  It is ridiculous for this minister to think that he can cheat my father to win favour of his friends. If we are looking for money this time it is not going to be on the back of our poor farmers. The processors should be prepa ...
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  It is ridiculous for this minister to think that he can cheat my father to win favour of his friends. If we are looking for money this time it is not going to be on the back of our poor farmers. The processors should be prepared to offer a competitive price. When we export we want to make more money. Then, why process it if you can get more money even if not processed.
  Mr. Minister your argument is incorrect. If we are exporting the processed good we are expected to make more money. Foolish minister.

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• Concerned 9 years ago

  Maybe they want to buy cheap from the farmers and export to make the profit themselves.The minister did not give any stats to back up his arguments.He needs to use shear butttr as the example. how much is the farmer making b ...
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  Maybe they want to buy cheap from the farmers and export to make the profit themselves.The minister did not give any stats to back up his arguments.He needs to use shear butttr as the example. how much is the farmer making by exporting in the raw state. how much do they make by selling to the processing/purchasing company. the increase in processed shear butter after the ban.the stupid minister is not doing anything about rubber farmers who are being paid only a quarter of the world market value by the only purchasing company. it looks to me like the minister wants to use back door tactics to steal farmers profit.
  where are these so called processing companies. what products are they making,what is the capacity of each of them

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• Concerned 9 years ago

  ...with cashew.

  ...with cashew.

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• Nana Antwi 9 years ago

  Mr. Minister you can never export processed products without expanding the primary production base. Support cashewprocessors to set up nucleus farms with double the output the requite per annnum. That is the way to offer proc ...
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  Mr. Minister you can never export processed products without expanding the primary production base. Support cashewprocessors to set up nucleus farms with double the output the requite per annnum. That is the way to offer processors support that increase their clntrol over the quality, price and supply of RCN,, and it doesnt hurt any farmer or exporter. To ensure price stability get the excess RCN produced by the processors into a bulk storage warehousing receipt system that enables the cashew board recover the funding granted.

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• Saint Ghfuo: FREE YOUR PSYCHE 9 years ago

  TALK SOME...U YOURSELF NEED TO BE EXPORTED AS RAW MATERIALS. IDIOTS IN POWER...

  TALK SOME...U YOURSELF NEED TO BE EXPORTED AS RAW MATERIALS. IDIOTS IN POWER...

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• Adwen 9 years ago

  This is the Job Spio-Garbrah is being paid daily by the poor tax-payers money to do. So why is he telling us? What authority have we got to do it if almost the authority has been vested in him?
  This is typical NDC they don't ...
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  This is the Job Spio-Garbrah is being paid daily by the poor tax-payers money to do. So why is he telling us? What authority have we got to do it if almost the authority has been vested in him?
  This is typical NDC they don't know how to do the job so the think merely talking about it is the solution. Pigs.

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• ICK 9 years ago

  Many Ghanaians abroad wants to establish businesses in Ghana,but due to high duty and taxes,nobody dont want to come,because of the situation.We can bring equipments that can process the the products in Ghana,before export.

  Many Ghanaians abroad wants to establish businesses in Ghana,but due to high duty and taxes,nobody dont want to come,because of the situation.We can bring equipments that can process the the products in Ghana,before export.

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