{"id":169364,"date":"2024-04-08T07:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T07:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/08\/cocoa-farmers-dissatisfied-with-58-26-price-increase\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T07:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T07:03:48","slug":"cocoa-farmers-dissatisfied-with-58-26-price-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/08\/cocoa-farmers-dissatisfied-with-58-26-price-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocoa farmers dissatisfied with 58.26% price increase\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Cocoa farmers across Ghana are expressing frustration in response to the recent announcement of new farmgate prices for cocoa beans.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) announced a 58.26 percent increase, setting the price at GH\u00a233,120 cedis per ton for the 2023\/2024 crop season.<\/p>\n<p>This decision, according to COCOBOD, aims to distribute the benefits of soaring global cocoa prices and discourage the smuggling of cocoa beans.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Ghana National Cocoa Farmers Association has voiced strong opposition to the increase, stating it is inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>President of the association, Stephenson Anane Boateng asserts that cocoa farmers are being unfairly treated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCocoa has been raised globally to $10,000 per metric ton. So if you compare, and you convert to our currency, it is running into over GH\u00a29,000. We totally disagree with them. We pay our labour, we buy inputs for the farm, and then we also pay ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo in a nutshell, we get only GH\u00a2600 for that while COCOBOD also gets GH\u00a27,000. So what work did COCOBOD do and give us that money? It\u2019s an insult!\u201d<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em><strong>Explore the world of impactful news with CitiNewsroom on WhatsApp!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Click on the link to join the Citi Newsroom channel for curated, meaningful stories tailored just for YOU: https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCYzPRAYlUPudDDe53x<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>No spams, just the stories that truly matter! #StayInformed #CitiNewsroom #CNRDigital<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cocoa farmers across Ghana are expressing frustration in response to the recent announcement of new farmgate prices for cocoa beans. The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) announced a 58.26 percent increase, setting the price at GH\u00a233,120 cedis per ton for the 2023\/2024 crop season. This decision, according to COCOBOD, aims to distribute the benefits of soaring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cocoa farmers dissatisfied with 58.26% price increase\u00a0 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/08\/cocoa-farmers-dissatisfied-with-58-26-price-increase\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cocoa farmers dissatisfied with 58.26% price increase\u00a0 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cocoa farmers across Ghana are expressing frustration in response to the recent announcement of new farmgate prices for cocoa beans. 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