Cocoa farmers complain about cheating marketing clerks

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• The mask 11 years ago

  The Bank of Ghana (BOG) has no Eastern Regional headoffice. The BOG must ask for land from the King of Akyem (Okyehene) to construct this building. I don´t believe that the BOG has accurate data of the economic activity in t ...
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  The Bank of Ghana (BOG) has no Eastern Regional headoffice. The BOG must ask for land from the King of Akyem (Okyehene) to construct this building. I don´t believe that the BOG has accurate data of the economic activity in the at least 12 Akyem districts which make up more than half the population on the region. The GDP and GNI of these Akyem districts are very high. They stem from:
  
  Gold mining
  Diamond mining
  Cocoa
  Oil Palm (the largest in West Africa)
  Timber
  Software development
  etc
  
  The money supply and capital in the at least 12 Akyem districts are wholly inadequate. BOG must remove impediments to the setting up of rural banks in these districts and encourage ADB and GCB to open branches in these districts.
  
  The government must further ensure that wholly owned Ghanaian banks, including rural banks, get at least 80% of the banking revenue.

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• GHANANI 11 years ago

  This very crime against cocoa farmers has been going on for a long time.A lot of cocoa buying clerks build palatial houses and cars from the work they do and where do they get the money from? They steal the cocoa beans throug ...
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  This very crime against cocoa farmers has been going on for a long time.A lot of cocoa buying clerks build palatial houses and cars from the work they do and where do they get the money from? They steal the cocoa beans through the manipulation of the weighing scales and then sell the cocoa beans to the Cocoa Marketing Board.How can such a crime encourage the youth to enter cocoa farming?Cocoa buying clerks caught committing such an offence must be severely punished.They must be jailed and any property acquired confiscated.My advice to farmers is that they should weigh their cocoa before sending them to the cocoa buying centres for sale.

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• Alhaji Brutus Germany 11 years ago

  THE CHEATING OF FARMERS BY PURCHASING CLERKS HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE FROM THE SIXTIES TILL NOW ;NO GOVERNMENT CARES ABOUT THE FARMERS PARTICULARY BRONG AHAFO AND WESTERN REGION:

  THE CHEATING OF FARMERS BY PURCHASING CLERKS HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE FROM THE SIXTIES TILL NOW ;NO GOVERNMENT CARES ABOUT THE FARMERS PARTICULARY BRONG AHAFO AND WESTERN REGION:

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• Chico Boy 11 years ago

  NDC government is sinking cocoa price while things are increasing.

  NDC government is sinking cocoa price while things are increasing.

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• sEFWI Bodi 11 years ago

  sefwi cocoa farmers rise up! everyday its brong ahafo, its ashanti, its central

  sefwi cocoa farmers rise up! everyday its brong ahafo, its ashanti, its central

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• sum addoquay 11 years ago

  Scale adjustment is a big problem.This is one of reasons the youth are not interested in cocoa production in Ghana.MONKEY DE WORK BABOON DE CHOP lai-lai

  Scale adjustment is a big problem.This is one of reasons the youth are not interested in cocoa production in Ghana.MONKEY DE WORK BABOON DE CHOP lai-lai

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• KABERE OLOMIA 11 years ago

  THE DISTRICT OFFICERS(DOs) DEDUCT 3kgs MONEY ON EACH BAG, AND AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASING CLERKS (PCs) TO ADJUST THEIR SCALES B4 BUYING COCOA FROM FARMERS. IT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEM. COCOBOD, PLS WAKE UP

  THE DISTRICT OFFICERS(DOs) DEDUCT 3kgs MONEY ON EACH BAG, AND AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASING CLERKS (PCs) TO ADJUST THEIR SCALES B4 BUYING COCOA FROM FARMERS. IT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEM. COCOBOD, PLS WAKE UP

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