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'Abrofo nkatie' can save Ghana – Prof. Tano-Debrah

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  • Effo Ben - Lome 7 years ago

    Fools, gold , diamond etc recently petroleum could not save Ghana. Now aborofo nkatie is the Savior. Oh God save us from this curse

  • P Djamgbe 7 years ago

    The truth is except for what we learn from the books and methods based on the ideas of our slave masters, we cannot think of any new ideas of our own (no creativity), and until we are able to do that, our continent will remai ...
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  • siris 7 years ago

    The was an article in the 80's about what was happening in those Asian countries you mentioned.

    The article stated that while 70% of seniors graduating in the Western universities were graduating in the liberal arts and 3 ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 7 years ago

    How many tons of nuts do you need to extract one ton of oil, you're looking at 7 -10 metric tons to be able to extract a ton of oil from the nuts

  • Obed 7 years ago

    Noting can save Ghana ,Ghana can be saved by the people it self the citizens of Ghana .

  • Kojo T 7 years ago

    You have to try other ideas.He says it can grow anywhere and hardly needs water.Can you see the dry areas benefitting?

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 7 years ago

    Please the Almond tree that has Economic Value is different from the one that grows in Ghana.
    Please Google it and see the difference.

  • Smart Frempah UK 7 years ago

    Fools indeed, they don't want to admit that corruption and mismanagement is the problem of our retardation. Well said...Fools.

  • EDETH 7 years ago

    SHOW ME BLACK DEVELOPED NATION IN THE WORLD SINCE LEADERS IN GHANA HAVE BLACK COAL MIND AND SELFISH GREED CORRUPT SLAVE MENTALITY. MAHAMA CUT TAPES FOR NEW SCHOOLS FUNDED WITH LOANS WHILES OLD SCHOOLS HARDLY RENOVATED. LOANS ...
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  • Apostle Mawuetornam Dugbazah 7 years ago

    You wrote the truth. Now let us see how many people will acknowledge that you spoke truth or whether they will prefer the status quo of unrighteous governance in their rhetoric?

    Ghana is failing because of the lack of vis ...
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  • OBINNA 7 years ago

    WITH ALL THIS KNOWLEDGE, WHY IS THIS MAN NOT IN THE FIELD CULTIVATING THIS CROP AND EXTRACTING THE OIL FOR EXPORT BUT SITTING AT LEGON DREAMING ABOUT THE 'BENEFITS'? LETS MOVE FROM THE BOOK WORM MENTALITY TO THE DOERS.

  • mpata 7 years ago

    Don't mind them they talk about coming to Ghana to invest and see all the problems they give to those who come.
    Please go and read about what a hard time they are giving to Dr. Awuah just for his certification of an advan ...
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  • siris 7 years ago

    Do you know that Mahama and his administration are the hindrance to investment in Ghana. When Mahama and his administration are borrowing money (issuing bonds) at 24.5%, which bank, which has the option of buying that bond, l ...
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  • Kwasi 7 years ago

    Good idea Prof, I heard this from Kofi Wayo years back. Who will listen you anyway?

  • atta sam 7 years ago

    We have everything. But to get support you must be a friend, classmate or relative. When you start and it is doing well, cheap imports will come in to destroy. We donit support our own.

  • kingKong 7 years ago

    cashew, which is world known, cashew growers in ghana has to beg for comodity companies to buy, how much more "abrofo nkatie...

  • bjhfhj 7 years ago

    am a cashew farmer nobody is begging companies to buy.

  • Lawless lying Jay Ray Ram Allan 7 years ago

    Ray Allen and his drops-out team are low IQ mammals

  • patriot 7 years ago

    They have even started rubbishing the idea that cultivating 'Abrofo Nkatie' can earn the nation a very huge foreign exchange for development.We are always cynical about what we can do to let the nation move ahead.

  • Smart Frempah UK 7 years ago

    Patriot, well said but the point here is another issue. We already have uncountable commodities we can hardly handle. What we already have can make the country heaven on earth but but but the disease and canker called misma ...
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  • Joe 7 years ago

    This man paas is that how u are

  • Enu-kwesi E 7 years ago

    It is possible almonds could do the trick, but what has the Prof done? He could get some acres in his village to show all of us who are interested the pratical benefits. Used to eat almonds daily, quite expensive

  • Christian 7 years ago

    The problem in Ghana is that we look down on the things at our disposal. A former lecturer, Dr. K. Afriyie, KNUST always talked about investing in almond. This is no news to me, should we engage in that it would help absorb t ...
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  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 7 years ago

    The Almond tree that has economic value is different from the ones that grow in Ghana.
    When you Google the almond tree,you will see the difference.

  • BT 7 years ago

    These are the people we need on our morning shows and not those NDC and NPP panelist. We have Professors like Sefa-Dede, Emmanuel Ohene-Afoakwa, Esther Sekyi-Dawson, Amoa-wuah etc in Ghana with knowledge as to how we can proc ...
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  • Nii 7 years ago

    Ghanaian armchair professors always propounding unworkable theories. One expect to see prototypes or samples that can be attractive to industrialists who will commercialize it. All their references are in foreign lands. Let's ...
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  • Photosy 7 years ago

    California farmers made huge loses in their 201-2015 report. That not withstanding, Greenstreet compared the extracted oil price of Almonds to raw cocoa beans and that was ingenious to say the least. His comparison should be ...
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  • Samuel Soffessel 7 years ago

    If what prof is saying is true, there's nothing wrong here to so criticize about. Let him be.

  • Rastafara"I" 7 years ago

    you can have that "nkatie" in addition to cocoa and oil..to diversify the economy....
    yes, if the contribution from this product is significant, it will be good for ghana...

    If every phd makes such useful suggestions, gha ...
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  • pk 7 years ago

    Opportunity for private investors with government providing the enabling environment