{"id":1217363,"date":"2022-10-06T13:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T13:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/farmers-threaten-to-smuggle-cocoa-if-price-of-produce-does-not-go-up-further\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T13:23:01","slug":"farmers-threaten-to-smuggle-cocoa-if-price-of-produce-does-not-go-up-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/farmers-threaten-to-smuggle-cocoa-if-price-of-produce-does-not-go-up-further\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers threaten to smuggle cocoa if price of produce does not go up further"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Cocoa farmers have threatened to smuggle their produce to neighbouring countries if government does not take measures to further increase the price of cocoa.<\/p>\n<p>A bag of cocoa was previously selling for GH\u00a2660 in Ghana until government yesterday announced an increment in the producer price by 21% to GH\u00a2800 for the 2022\/2023 cocoa crop season.<\/p>\n<p>The new pricing regime is expected to take effect from Friday, October 7, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>However, some cocoa farmers are lamenting the new increment is woefully inadequate, as compared to that of the Ivory Coast which is pegged at about \u00a2858 for the same season.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the President of the Concerned Farmers Association, Nana Oboadie Boateng Bonsu said they are unhappy with the new rates and demand a further price adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government has put in some effort, but this is not enough for us. We were expecting about GH\u00a21,500 so that we could at least have about GH\u00a2250 for welfare and GH\u00a21250 in the pocket of the farmer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can the cocoa farmers decide on a price and then government sit elsewhere and quotes its price without consulting us? There was no dialogue whatsoever. Our farmers are threatening to smuggle their produce to neighbouring countries if there is no further increment in the price.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"bJvYjUHFVQE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New price of cocoa to be announced next week | Citi Newsroom\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bJvYjUHFVQE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cocoa farmers have threatened to smuggle their produce to neighbouring countries if government does not take measures to further increase the price of cocoa. A bag of cocoa was previously selling for GH\u00a2660 in Ghana until government yesterday announced an increment in the producer price by 21% to GH\u00a2800 for the 2022\/2023 cocoa crop season. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217363","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\/1217363","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=1217363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}