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33% of cocoa trees unproductive - COCOBOD CEO

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  • Oye Onye Kwasi Atta 7 years ago

    Is this admittance that NDC'S seedlings nurseries to replace low yielding trees were after all good but not as we were told by NPP during the electioneering year?

  • Jim w 7 years ago

    Ndc realized this and started distributing seadlings to the farmers but led by the new comical agric minister various but interesting reasons were adduced for the down turn of the cocoa industry. God is watching !

  • fafa 7 years ago

    DID NDC DISTRIBUTEE THE HYBRID COCOA SEEDS TO PEOPLE IN COCOA GROWING AREAS OR TO PEOPLE IN THE SAVANNA AREAS>

  • Isaac USA 7 years ago

    I received and planted 5000 hybrid seedlings last year. For this year ,l will need just about1500 to replace those that died but it looks like l will not get it. I am still paying my permanent workers for clearing the farm ...
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  • Clifford 7 years ago

    Oh, Deputy Minister , hear their cry

  • Yaa Nkosuo 7 years ago

    What about pesticides.

    What is the situation with the privatization of the Produce Buying sector? WE need to see improvement in that sector through improved business support in that industry. Else stakeholders will hold ...
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  • Emma, Teshie 7 years ago

    Please Mr CEO Joseph Boahen, kindly declare your monthly salary for us to know. I beg.

  • T and T 7 years ago

    We work so hard at the cocoa plantations and still "kokoasefo"
    We used to be the leading producer under Nkrumah, loosing that top position should have been a wake up call, but instead they failed to treat the average farmer ...
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  • Kwaku Mensah 7 years ago

    It's better you go to controller and accountant generals office and you will be furnish with every information about all Ghanaian workers salary, including the president of the land.

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  • NOBI 7 years ago

    COCOA RESEARCH HAS THE KEY TO OUR PROBLEMS REGARDING COCOA.
    A SITUATION WHERE GOVT. IN POWER WANTS THE INSTITUTE TO APPROVE WRONG FERTILIZER,DOES NOT LISTEN TO ADVICE AND KEEP TRANSFERING RESEARCH OFFICERS INDISCRIMINATELY , ...
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  • KOFI MUMUI 7 years ago

    Here we go again! No data to work with, information unavailable, we are working on it, we don't have this, we don't have that. No movement on anything, no progress anywhere. What is going on?

  • SON OF GOD 7 years ago

    Did you just started the program or inherited it from the previous government? You see not everthing was bad. You are now enjoying the fruits of the past CEO, OPUNI, yet at the same time trying to paint him black why? God is ...
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  • GHANAMAN THE REAL 7 years ago

    What's all this useless talking or blowing hot air instead of expediting action immediately to replacing all these non productive and aged/diseased cocoa trees? Why not form immediate replanting gangs from the masses of unemp ...
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  • George Augustus 7 years ago

    It's our duty and right to know the salary of the CEO Mr. b.Aidoo as Ghanaians this includes all those running the affairs of the nation this programme was in place since 2015-2016 auditing of farm sizes and none productive t ...
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  • OPUKU 7 years ago

    They are productive therefore stop complaining and work Mr. CEO.

  • Ashootings 7 years ago

    This guy is underestimating the magnitude of the problem. What are the sources of his figure 33%? Or is it a guesstimate? The problem is bigger than his figure. He should collect data from secretary receivers about farm size ...
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