{"id":1217685,"date":"2022-10-06T20:41:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/increasing-cocoa-price-by-21-is-an-insult-cocobod-told\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T20:41:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:41:29","slug":"increasing-cocoa-price-by-21-is-an-insult-cocobod-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/increasing-cocoa-price-by-21-is-an-insult-cocobod-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing cocoa price by 21% is an insult &#8211; COCOBOD told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"402\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Cocoa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Cocoa.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"402\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Cocoa.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Cocoa\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>A cocoa farmer has described as \u201cinsulting and disrespectful\u201d the new price for a sack of cocoa beans as announced on Wednesday, October 5.<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Mark Ewusi Arkoh, who is also the National Youth Organiser of the People\u2019s National Convention (PNC), per the current economic conditions and high cost of living, a minimum of GH\u00a2925 should have been settled for the price.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Agriculture on Wednesday, October 5 announced a 21 percent increase in cocoa price per sack and this translates to GH\u00a2800.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">W<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">e<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">a<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">r<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">e<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" 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role=\"presentation\">a<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">r<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">d,\u201d Mr Arkoh said in a statement on Thursday, October 6<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">T<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">h<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">i<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">s<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">i<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">n<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">c<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">r<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">e<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">m<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">e<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">n<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">t<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">i<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">s<\/span> <span 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dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">a<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">s<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">o<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">n<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It warned that failure on the part of COCOBOD to review the price could force farmers to sell off their farms to illegal miners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">F<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">a<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">r<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">m<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">e<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">r<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">s<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">f<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">i<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">n<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">d<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">i<\/span><span 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role=\"presentation\">n<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">y<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">f<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">a<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">r<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">m<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">e<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">r<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">s<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">a<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">r<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">e<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">g<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">e<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">t<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">t<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">i<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">n<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">g<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">d<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" 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According to Mark Ewusi Arkoh, who is also the National Youth Organiser of the People\u2019s National Convention (PNC), per the current economic conditions and high cost of living, a minimum of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1216124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[181,182,7946,8329,169,464],"class_list":{"0":"post-1217685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-cocoa","9":"tag-cocobod","10":"tag-increasing","11":"tag-insult","12":"tag-price","13":"tag-told"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217685","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=1217685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}