Oil Palm farmers support 10 per cent import tax

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• eugene 8 years ago

  you put dutys on cars,tv and trucks that are not even produced in ghana so you should put duty on palm oil/coconut/banana/plantain and groundnuts produced in other countrys

  you put dutys on cars,tv and trucks that are not even produced in ghana so you should put duty on palm oil/coconut/banana/plantain and groundnuts produced in other countrys

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• AVAALA, PRESIDENT (OPDAG) 8 years ago

  A different view is that the tax regime on imported crude palm oil should remain as status quo ante. The reason is that it comes in as aRAW MATERIAL to supplement local production. The value addition in Ghana is another idust ...
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  A different view is that the tax regime on imported crude palm oil should remain as status quo ante. The reason is that it comes in as aRAW MATERIAL to supplement local production. The value addition in Ghana is another idustry with significant contribution to food security (as in refined vegetable cooking oil) and FMCG products like soap and margarine.Some of the industries involved are among the largest tax payers to the state! Make CPO importation more expensive and they will either close down or raise their prices and become uncompetitive compared to imported finished goods. The loser will be all of us including the small scale farmer-directly and indirectly! When we have intensified/extensified oil palm production and closed the gap between local supply and demand, then we can ask for IAT on crude palm oil. Let us think again.

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• Fafafe Agbodzi-Sewornu 8 years ago

  Lets face fact. Is our local palm production adequate enough to meet demands? How come local production rather is more expensive than far East as indicated by Mr Tsumasi? what are they doing themselves as local farmers to bo ...
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  Lets face fact. Is our local palm production adequate enough to meet demands? How come local production rather is more expensive than far East as indicated by Mr Tsumasi? what are they doing themselves as local farmers to boost production? No reasonable government would favor foreign import if our local supply is inadequate and quality. We must be pproactive in our endeavour and stop always thinking that,it is government that should do everything. The little I know is that,local supply is woefully inadequate and supply is inconsistent.

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