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\"\"<\/a>The Cotton Farmers Association of Ghana says it is unhappy about government\u2019s decision to give the mandate of cotton production in the country to foreign companies.<\/p>\n

They said the policy would not only kill local enterprises but it would also bring in its wake unemployment among workers on the pay roll of local cotton companies.<\/p>\n

Local Cotton Companies would also face the challenges of paying back loans they contracted from the banks since they would no longer be in business.<\/p>\n

Osafo Patrick Apullah, Vice President of the Association raised these concerns in an interview with the Ghana News Agencies in Wa on Sunday.<\/p>\n

He called on the government to review its decision by allowing local companies to compete with their foreign counterparts favourably in order not jeopardise the future of the industry.<\/p>\n

The policy, if allowed to take of, would create more unemployment in the in the country adding: \u201cWhat would be the fate of all those workers if such companies were denied the opportunity to produce the crop again?\u201d<\/p>\n

Osafo Apullah appealed to government to take a clue from what happened at\u00a0 the Aveyime Rice Project where a foreigner duped the country of million of dollars.<\/p>\n

He called on all foreign companies that had been given the mandate to produce cotton to hold a forum with farmers to fix prices for lint cotton before they went to cotton production.<\/p>\n

Any failure on the part of the companies to hold such a forum would not be in the interest of them because farmers would feel reluctant to cultivate the crop.<\/p>\n

Source: GNA<\/p>\n

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