{"id":1216684,"date":"2022-10-05T15:55:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/minority-in-parliament-pressures-government-to-announce-producer-price-of-cocoa-for-2022-season\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T15:55:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:55:05","slug":"minority-in-parliament-pressures-government-to-announce-producer-price-of-cocoa-for-2022-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/minority-in-parliament-pressures-government-to-announce-producer-price-of-cocoa-for-2022-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority in Parliament pressures government to announce producer price of cocoa for 2022 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The Minority in Parliament is mounting pressure on the government to immediately announce the producer price of cocoa for the 2022\/2023 cocoa season.<\/p>\n<p>Despite launching the 2022\/23 cocoa season, COCOBOD is yet to announce how much cocoa farmers will be paid for their produce.<\/p>\n<p>According to Minority Spokesperson for Finance, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, this development is unprecedented and creates a feeling of uncertainty amongst farmers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ato-forson-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"Minority in Parliament pressures government to announce producer price of cocoa for 2022 season\" class=\"wp-image-10031955545 lazy\"  data- title=\"Minority in Parliament pressures government to announce producer price of cocoa for 2022 season\"\/><figcaption>Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, Dr Forson stated that farmers and stakeholders are running out of patience over the delay in the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year, cocoa prices are announced at the beginning of the season. In fact, 1st October is internationally recognised as the start of the cocoa season worldwide as affirmed by the United Nations Body for cocoa.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1357274989&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, COCOBOD opened the cocoa season without a producer price for cocoa \u2013 unprecedented,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspense cannot continue,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cthe government should not announce any price below GHC1,000 per bag\u201d after the uncertainties surrounding the delay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament is mounting pressure on the government to immediately announce the producer price of cocoa for the 2022\/2023 cocoa season. Despite launching the 2022\/23 cocoa season, COCOBOD is yet to announce how much cocoa farmers will be paid for their produce. According to Minority Spokesperson for Finance, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1216685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[456,181,1090,3386,2073,13634,169,2701,611],"class_list":["post-1216684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-announce","tag-cocoa","tag-government","tag-minority","tag-parliament","tag-pressures","tag-price","tag-producer","tag-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216684","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=1216684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}