Tomato farmers in crisis as their produce rot for lack of buyers

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Nsia 3 months ago

Why can't they process the tomatoes into canned or pureed ones?

Why can't they process the tomatoes into canned or pureed ones?
Benji 3 months ago

How is it that traders go all the way to Burkina Faso to import tomatoes but you can't sell yours? Is it the price, the type of tomato?

How is it that traders go all the way to Burkina Faso to import tomatoes but you can't sell yours? Is it the price, the type of tomato?
Akronfo Addonothing-Mumu Bawuliar- Ofui AtaaAyi the fugithief 3 months ago

Good questions. The reporter did not do a good job. Jss journalism

Good questions. The reporter did not do a good job. Jss journalism
gh leaders don't have sense 3 months ago

Puree the tomatoes put them in jars plastic buckets and freeze them until you can sell..Nkrumah had tomato canned factories all wasted by foolish gh leaders they have animal brains can't think....let them.die

Puree the tomatoes put them in jars plastic buckets and freeze them until you can sell..Nkrumah had tomato canned factories all wasted by foolish gh leaders they have animal brains can't think....let them.die
Truth be Told 3 months ago

It is cheaper and better quality. Simple.

It is cheaper and better quality. Simple.
Nana 3 months ago

It is the fear of galamsey poisoning

It is the fear of galamsey poisoning
Cole 3 months ago

You don't get it. There is a private tomato paste processing factory in Berekum so farmers grow the type that is good for processing but for some reason the factory is not buying. Wenchi is less than an hour away and also has ...
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You don't get it. There is a private tomato paste processing factory in Berekum so farmers grow the type that is good for processing but for some reason the factory is not buying. Wenchi is less than an hour away and also has a closed factory.
The farmers are not reliable so factors have to do on farming. Usually factory pay per kilo and buy in bulk but farmers sell small small for higher profits on the market but not to factory. So now that market women are not buying, they want factory to buy meanwhile the unreliable nature of farmers make factories to do own farming or source from elsewhere so can't suddenly buy from all farmers. The farmers are not selling because market women offer 150. If they will sell for 200 am sure the factory will buy so the lack of market is always about price
There's nothing stopping the farmers from canning their own tomatoes 3 months ago

The farmers can boil and can the tomatoes themselves if the company refuses to buy from them. How do people make shito and have them canned. Can't the farmers do the same and earn more money than selling the raw tomatoes? I c ...
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The farmers can boil and can the tomatoes themselves if the company refuses to buy from them. How do people make shito and have them canned. Can't the farmers do the same and earn more money than selling the raw tomatoes? I can tomatoes at home all the time. There are glass or plastic jars/containers they can buy to can their tomatoes
gh leaders don't have sense 3 months ago

There are places in Ghana where tomatoes can't be grown because of the weather or soil. They should hire a truck and take their tomatoes to those places and sell them there.if they need help they should ask their regional min ...
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There are places in Ghana where tomatoes can't be grown because of the weather or soil. They should hire a truck and take their tomatoes to those places and sell them there.if they need help they should ask their regional minister or agric minister for assistance e and stop complaining
Eazy 3 months ago

And tomatoes is very expensive in the market like that? Ohh Ghanaians and wickedness Ohh no

And tomatoes is very expensive in the market like that? Ohh Ghanaians and wickedness Ohh no

Kwame Nkrumah 3 months ago

Always stupidity nkoaaa!!! Soon u will hear the low Iiq people saying, Ghana cannot produce even tomatoes, we import tomatoes from Burkina Faso !!! Gyimiii saaa, we lack ability to make use or transform or store our farm prod ...
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Always stupidity nkoaaa!!! Soon u will hear the low Iiq people saying, Ghana cannot produce even tomatoes, we import tomatoes from Burkina Faso !!! Gyimiii saaa, we lack ability to make use or transform or store our farm produce!!
Kwaku 3 months ago

Storage facility oooooh Ghana no common sense

Storage facility oooooh Ghana no common sense
Akronfo Addonothing-Mumu Bawuliar- Ofui AtaaAyi the fugithief 3 months ago

Hmmm. We Africans are our own enemies. It started long time ago.

Hmmm. We Africans are our own enemies. It started long time ago.
WATCHMAN 3 months ago

These farmers overprice their tomatoes. Sometime one wonders if the tomatoes are imported abroad.

These farmers overprice their tomatoes. Sometime one wonders if the tomatoes are imported abroad.
A.D.A.G 3 months ago

We need a national food factories, where the farmers could sell huge amount of tomatoes at wholesale prices so those tomatoes can be processed into tomato paste, tomato sauces, tinned whole tomatoes this will not only prevent ...
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We need a national food factories, where the farmers could sell huge amount of tomatoes at wholesale prices so those tomatoes can be processed into tomato paste, tomato sauces, tinned whole tomatoes this will not only prevent those tomatoes from rotten but this or these factories could employ a few unemployed Ghanaians.
Test2 3 months ago

WHERE IS THE AGRIC MINISTER?
IS HE QUALIFIED AS AGRIC EXPERT? OR JUST POLITICAL APPOINTMENT
SQUARE PEG IN ROUND HOLE

WHERE IS THE AGRIC MINISTER?
IS HE QUALIFIED AS AGRIC EXPERT? OR JUST POLITICAL APPOINTMENT
SQUARE PEG IN ROUND HOLE
Nonsense 3 months ago

What stops them from boiling the tomatoes and crush them into paste and have them canned and sell for more money? People must think outside the box

What stops them from boiling the tomatoes and crush them into paste and have them canned and sell for more money? People must think outside the box
Kwame Nkrumah 3 months ago

Always stupidity nkoaaa!!! Soon u will hear the low Iiq people saying, Ghana cannot produce even tomatoes, we import tomatoes from Burkina Faso !!! Gyimiii saaa, we lack ability to make use or transform or store our farm prod ...
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Always stupidity nkoaaa!!! Soon u will hear the low Iiq people saying, Ghana cannot produce even tomatoes, we import tomatoes from Burkina Faso !!! Gyimiii saaa, we lack ability to make use or transform or store our farm produce!!!
gh leaders don't have sense 3 months ago

So agric minister don't have a solution to their plight? Then he or she shoukdbt be in that position..im sure the agric minister can go to china and import some type of machine that can turn ripened tomatoes into paste or pur ...
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So agric minister don't have a solution to their plight? Then he or she shoukdbt be in that position..im sure the agric minister can go to china and import some type of machine that can turn ripened tomatoes into paste or puree that can be stored and resold..the farmers should send their concerns to the agriculture minister for redress
Truth be Told 3 months ago

Our traditional small farm economies is anti-factory, and anti-mass production. No factory can survive by buying its raw materials from small scale farmers at the same price as fresh produce market. The difference is between ...
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Our traditional small farm economies is anti-factory, and anti-mass production. No factory can survive by buying its raw materials from small scale farmers at the same price as fresh produce market. The difference is between food crop and cash crop pricing. They simply will be paying for the cost of low productivity and inefficiency and transferring into their processing cost. The solution is for farmers to lower the cost of the farm produce far below 80 cedis to make a higher profit margin from the 100 cedis offered by factories, otherwise the factories themselves will close down. This is what has killed all processing factories, low farm productivity and insistence on using fluctuating fresh produce market price as the benchmark price even when there is a glut. The truth is that only medium to large scale farmers can profitably supply factories, whilst small holders concentrate on markets

John 3 months ago

We always built mason with our mouths. Any when I come I will do these and I will do that. We always solve problems on televisions and radios. Give the so called technical men the chance and talk more but just give them the o ...
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We always built mason with our mouths. Any when I come I will do these and I will do that. We always solve problems on televisions and radios. Give the so called technical men the chance and talk more but just give them the opportunity and find wanting. Me the politician is a liar and a fool. Someone will start a program today and another will come and abandon it to start the same program with a different name. And as stupid as we the citizens are see nothing wrong with it. The black foolish colour human being shall never progress till they kingdom comes. Let them chop and go, this is the wicked politician for you. They make the noise let's eat what we grow, but they and their families will never eat what they said we grow. Fooools

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