{"id":1207146,"date":"2022-09-19T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/let-producer-price-review-committee-lead-discussions-on-cocoa-pricing-licensed-buyers\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T14:39:08","slug":"let-producer-price-review-committee-lead-discussions-on-cocoa-pricing-licensed-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/let-producer-price-review-committee-lead-discussions-on-cocoa-pricing-licensed-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Producer Price Review Committee lead discussions on cocoa pricing- Licensed Buyers\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Accra, Sept 19, GNA- Licensed Cocoa Buyers Association of Ghana (LICOBAG) has urged players in the cocoa industry to let the Producer Price Review Committee (PPRC) lead discussions on the pricing of cocoa for the 2022\/23 cocoa season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Victus Dzareh Dzah, the Executive Secretary of the Association, in a statement, said the Committee, which had the mandate to deal with matters relating to the pricing of the crop should be allowed to function despite the \u201ceuphoria surrounding the pricing of cocoa for this season.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch as we agree that the cost of doing any kind of business at this time is extremely high, we believe that a scientific approach must be taken in the price review exercise,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the farmer produces cocoa, it must be bought, graded, sealed, evacuated and shipped, before the value is added to it lest it is valueless. The size of the \u2018cake\u2019 which is the world market price (f.o.b. price) drives the sharing mechanism and fairness is the hallmark of this exercise lest the industry collapses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all need to take a sober look at what is happening on the market to guide us. This means that we must all be guided by the facts from the figures for a fair distribution of the \u2018cake\u2019. We anticipate positive input into this debate to achieve healthy stakeholder relationships,\u201d the statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related News<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"1eee5e17f6c1010df753484a-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accra, Sept 19, GNA- Licensed Cocoa Buyers Association of Ghana (LICOBAG) has urged players in the cocoa industry to let the Producer Price Review Committee (PPRC) lead discussions on the pricing of cocoa for the 2022\/23 cocoa season.\u00a0 Mr Victus Dzareh Dzah, the Executive Secretary of the Association, in a statement, said the Committee, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[6068,181,1309,9896,2046,1901,169,7176,2701,1368],"class_list":["post-1207146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business","tag-buyers","tag-cocoa","tag-committee","tag-discussions","tag-lead","tag-licensed","tag-price","tag-pricing","tag-producer","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}