Sissala farmers hit hard as maize prices crash amid slow harvest

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• Zargon 1 month ago

  So you see why we say some Ghanaians are wicked? Like the Kenkey sellers and all. People are going around saying why is the price of kenkey still high when the dollar and inflation has come down. Smh

  So you see why we say some Ghanaians are wicked? Like the Kenkey sellers and all. People are going around saying why is the price of kenkey still high when the dollar and inflation has come down. Smh

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• Godfred 1 month ago

  They have to do math, it should make sense. If at source is very expensive how can consumers afford. Do math and government support them

  They have to do math, it should make sense. If at source is very expensive how can consumers afford. Do math and government support them

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• Kasongo 1 month ago

  They should all turn into kenkey sellers to kill the kenkey market too. Those people are ripping us off.

  They should all turn into kenkey sellers to kill the kenkey market too. Those people are ripping us off.

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• Kwasi Kantinka 1 month ago

  Should we be surprised maize prices fluctuate so wildly? I am not because after almost 70 years of independence all our talk about agriculture has been hot air. Tell me what consumer commodity have we been able to organise on ...
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  Should we be surprised maize prices fluctuate so wildly? I am not because after almost 70 years of independence all our talk about agriculture has been hot air. Tell me what consumer commodity have we been able to organise on a national scale? What consumer commodity do we store on a national scale? Or even on a local scale? Have maize farmers organised themselves on a national or local scale?
  The answer is none. We have the answers. We know what we should do. Don't we?
  I was born 88 years ago and since I could go to the market basic food items such as tomatoes, garden eggs, peppers, onions, you name it, have been bunched together either as handful, or four together never weighed. The yam seller looks at the yam and names a price or puts together two small bananas and price them at, say, ten cedis. One only have to go to the Makola market to see how these are sold. Haven't we heard of weights and measures?
  Until we put into practice what we think we know, those simple solutions- storage, co-operatives, national distribution, we will continue wallowing in our poverty.

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• Mohammed Tolon. 1 month ago

  What a blessed country with wicked leaders! Yara NPK was sold at Ghc550, in some areas more . Gov't so called support fertilizer under the SIP came too late in the season for farmers, high interest loans and other services su ...
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  What a blessed country with wicked leaders! Yara NPK was sold at Ghc550, in some areas more . Gov't so called support fertilizer under the SIP came too late in the season for farmers, high interest loans and other services such as high cost of labour only for farmers to cry for better market. Don't be surprise to hear a gov't official or party spokesperson bragging about this as an achievement at the expense of the poor farmers. The state is paying 3 to 4 times the price to food contractors supplying food to state institutions yet can't help farmers break even let alone to make profit. Why?

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• Cooon 1 month ago

  Why do they rush to sell after harvest? Not everyone bought fertilizer and other inputs as claimed. I know politicians usually donate some of these things. Some people who are a bit well to do sponsor themselves and so they s ...
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  Why do they rush to sell after harvest? Not everyone bought fertilizer and other inputs as claimed. I know politicians usually donate some of these things. Some people who are a bit well to do sponsor themselves and so they should wait a bit after harvest so that the prices can appreciate before they sell

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• DO WE HAVE GRAIN SILOS TO STORE GRAIN? 1 month ago

  Do we have grain silos to store excess grain during seasons of plenty? This should be one of the most important roles of the Department of Agriculture.
  FOOD SECURITY SHOULD BE A TOP PRIORITY FOR ANY GOVERNMENT!!!

  Do we have grain silos to store excess grain during seasons of plenty? This should be one of the most important roles of the Department of Agriculture.
  FOOD SECURITY SHOULD BE A TOP PRIORITY FOR ANY GOVERNMENT!!!

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• Kwame 1 month ago

  The government must intervene to buy maize and preserve it or even find a means of going to the markets to sell it, just as the Farmers' Brigade use to do in the 1960s.

  The government must intervene to buy maize and preserve it or even find a means of going to the markets to sell it, just as the Farmers' Brigade use to do in the 1960s.

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• Cole 1 month ago

  In the years profits go up drastically do they know us ordinary folks. Now that prices are down they want our tax money

  In the years profits go up drastically do they know us ordinary folks. Now that prices are down they want our tax money

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• Kwame 1 month ago

  In some advance countries the state have what they call hot kitchen where the poor are feed.
  But, wait, citizens of those countries and even those who eat from their hot kitchen will tell you that the state should not go in ...
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  In some advance countries the state have what they call hot kitchen where the poor are feed.
  But, wait, citizens of those countries and even those who eat from their hot kitchen will tell you that the state should not go into buying and selling of food.
  But the state in those countries buy the food in raw state before employing people to cook and serve people with it.
  Let those cynics come out.

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• Major 1 1 month ago

  SO IT IS YOUR JOY THAT THE PRICES OF FOODSTUFFS SHOULD REMAIN HIGH SO YOU CAN MAKE PROFITS! YOU ARE WICKED AND SENSELESS. IT WILL CRUSH FURTHER. WHAT KIND OF THINKING IS THAT

  SO IT IS YOUR JOY THAT THE PRICES OF FOODSTUFFS SHOULD REMAIN HIGH SO YOU CAN MAKE PROFITS! YOU ARE WICKED AND SENSELESS. IT WILL CRUSH FURTHER. WHAT KIND OF THINKING IS THAT

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• GOD IS WATCHING 3 weeks ago

  Just cultivate one acre land of maize and let buyers buy a 200kg of it(4 bags weight of cement) for ghc400. Do this calculation
  1 labour for harvesting ghc100(man)
  Carrier/gatherer ghc80 (woman)
  Threshing per bag ghc30
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  Just cultivate one acre land of maize and let buyers buy a 200kg of it(4 bags weight of cement) for ghc400. Do this calculation
  1 labour for harvesting ghc100(man)
  Carrier/gatherer ghc80 (woman)
  Threshing per bag ghc30
  Loaders ghc30
  Transport from farm to market ghc50 irrespective of distance
  Total 100+80+30+30+50=ghc290
  Add the Cost of maize,renting of land, clearing the land, application of weedicides(twice/thrice), sowers etc. Not to mention fertilizer.
  Kindly think about this and you will understand the plight of farmers in Ghana now.

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• Abi 1 month ago

  Pls let them relocate their products to other regions to market if not the middle men will take advantage of them.They should have an association who buy from the farmers and sell it in the cities or to schools, poultry farme ...
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  Pls let them relocate their products to other regions to market if not the middle men will take advantage of them.They should have an association who buy from the farmers and sell it in the cities or to schools, poultry farmers or make it into dough and sell abroad in Europe.

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