{"id":1216780,"date":"2022-10-05T17:07:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/cocoa-price-goes-up-by-21-now-gh%c2%a2800-per-bag\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T17:07:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:07:24","slug":"cocoa-price-goes-up-by-21-now-gh%c2%a2800-per-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/cocoa-price-goes-up-by-21-now-gh%c2%a2800-per-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocoa price goes up by 21%; now GH\u00a2800 per bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Government has pegged the producer price for cocoa at GH\u00a2800 per bag of 64kg.<\/p>\n<p>The new price takes effect from Friday, October 14, 2022, for the 2022-2023 crop season.<\/p>\n<p>This depicts a 21 percent increase from GH\u00a210,560 per tonne to GH\u00a212,800 per tonne.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto made the announcement at a press briefing in Accra today, Wednesday, October 5, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 21% rise in the producer price of cocoa is a testament to Government\u2019s resolve to ensure farmers earn a decent income and make cocoa farming lucrative. Government will continue to implement initiatives to build a robust, resilient and sustainable cocoa industry where cocoa farmers and their communities will thrive\u201d, the Minister said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has pegged the producer price for cocoa at GH\u00a2800 per bag of 64kg. The new price takes effect from Friday, October 14, 2022, for the 2022-2023 crop season. This depicts a 21 percent increase from GH\u00a210,560 per tonne to GH\u00a212,800 per tonne. Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto made the announcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1216781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216780","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=1216780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}