{"id":714819,"date":"2019-10-02T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/02\/cocoa-price-up-8-42\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T13:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:02:45","slug":"cocoa-price-up-8-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/02\/cocoa-price-up-8-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocoa Price Up 8.42% –"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CEO of Ghana COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo Addressing cocoa day
celebration in Syi<\/strong><\/p>\n

GOVERNMENT HAS announced a new producer price for cocoa for the 2020\/2021 farming season. <\/p>\n

The new price was announced yesterday in Sunyani during the commemoration
\nof the 2019 Cocoa Day celebration.<\/p>\n

Farmers will now be paid GH\u00a2515 for a bag of cocoa beans. Previously
\nthey received GH\u00a2475.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The world market price of the produce still remains unchanged. Ghana
\nis among the 22 cocoa producing countries in world.<\/p>\n

On his part, Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo,
\nsaid because cocoa was the backbone of the Ghanaian economy, government would
\ncontinue to support cocoa farmers to produce more. <\/p>\n

He said cocoa production in Ghana was at its lowest, with farmers
\nreaping only three bags per acre when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) came to
\npower. It has taken the hard work of government through initiatives such as hand
\npollination, pruning, fertilizer application, disease and pest control as well
\nas rehabilitation of farms under the Productivity Enhancement Programme (PEPs) to
\nbring the harvest of farmers to over 10 bags per acre.<\/p>\n

Mr. Aidoo has, therefore, urged farmers to do away with the use of crude
\nimplements like machetes for pruning cocoa trees and resort to the use of motorised
\nslashers. Since these would be distributed to farmers on cooperative bases, he
\nhas encouraged them to join farmer cooperatives so that they could benefit from
\nthe package.<\/p>\n

To further improve on productivity of cocoa farmers, he said government
\nwas seriously fighting cocoa swollen shoot virus. <\/p>\n

The government was going to do that by cutting and treating disease
\ntrees on affected farms through the rehabilitation programme.<\/p>\n

danielyaodayee@yahoo.com <\/strong><\/p>\n

FROM Daniel Y Dayee, Sunyani <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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