Cocoa crop failure threatens next season

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• Farmer 10 years ago

  The analyst is wrong. The downturn was long visible by sector expert agronomists. Besides the huge smuggling issue we look at a structural problem of all the wrong agronomic practices. Spraying has destroyed the Cocoa ecosyst ...
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  The analyst is wrong. The downturn was long visible by sector expert agronomists. Besides the huge smuggling issue we look at a structural problem of all the wrong agronomic practices. Spraying has destroyed the Cocoa ecosystem and COCOBOD still has no idea what they are facing.
  
  Remaining problems are social. For many young generation farmers Cocoa is not worth the effort anymore as they cannot feed their families.
  
  Ghana needs a complete overhaul of the sector which nobody seems to be aware of.A truly national disaster for at least a decade should be expected.

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• Ngi 10 years ago

  Farmer, I agree with 100/%. The explanations cited for the downturn in cocoa production and output in the country... especially in the western region of Ghana contradicts the situation on the ground. That is completely your ...
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  Farmer, I agree with 100/%. The explanations cited for the downturn in cocoa production and output in the country... especially in the western region of Ghana contradicts the situation on the ground. That is completely your desktop analysis. It does not reveal the problem let alone resolved. Continue that way very soon you will be sending Abinchi cocoa to the Europeans.

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• OYIWA 10 years ago

  Under the duo Fifi Fiavi kwetey and Samuel Opuni of the Min. of Agric and Cocobod respectively of the John Dramani Mahama NDC gov't, cocoa one of Ghana's foremost foreign exchange earners has seen a drop n output after the pr ...
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  Under the duo Fifi Fiavi kwetey and Samuel Opuni of the Min. of Agric and Cocobod respectively of the John Dramani Mahama NDC gov't, cocoa one of Ghana's foremost foreign exchange earners has seen a drop n output after the previous NPP gov't led by President Kufuor showed consistent increase in yield of the product as a result of excellent leadership, better policies and programs, that invariably boosted production such as the mass cocoa spraying exercise.
  The incompetence and the corrupt tendencies of the Mahama NDC gov't and Kwetey and Opuni has struck the cocoa sector, and the rippling effect is being felt across the Atlantic, another of the numerous unenviable records of the John Dramani Mahama NDC gov't.
  The e dey bee k3k3 is unraveling and by the time it is over in 2016, Ghana will be a goner.

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• Nana Addai 10 years ago

  The results of voting for a person who has no vision in all sectors of de economy. What policy has de ndc in de agric sector. God save us.

  The results of voting for a person who has no vision in all sectors of de economy. What policy has de ndc in de agric sector. God save us.

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• Kwakwaduam 10 years ago

  Cocoa trees cut down for galamsay,ageing cocoa farmers (ave. age 57),smuggling bcos of low rate,politicizing chemicals for sparyn...BAM. Ghana depends much on d golden bean so Opuni solve this problems and 1m tons will b ache ...
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  Cocoa trees cut down for galamsay,ageing cocoa farmers (ave. age 57),smuggling bcos of low rate,politicizing chemicals for sparyn...BAM. Ghana depends much on d golden bean so Opuni solve this problems and 1m tons will b acheiveable! BAM!

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