Why Burkina Faso banned the export of tomatoes – Dr Otokunor explains

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  • Nene Sackitey 7 hours ago

    There is nothing to explain here except the short sightedness of Africa leadership. This seasonal economic and agricultural interdependency between our peoples predates colonial partitioning. We have seen it set backs and c ...
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  • Simple 6 hours ago

    Ask them to give us 3 months and then give local farmers grants plus a ready market. Set up tomato marketing board and start selling tomatoes to Burkina in 6 months from now

  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 5 hours ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine........for instance 15 paracetamol at once......or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • Oobak3 3 hours ago

    This is madness borne out of incompetence and stupidity. We have better soil, climate, and the demand. Why are we importing from Burkina? This is an avenue for job creation.

  • Karikakchar 3 hours ago

    We should stop these N-DC/PP no even and look for pragmatic solutions. All these party footsoldiers rather than taking g money from the parry for no work done should take advantage of this situation to produce the tomatoes to ...
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  • Kwadwo 4 hours ago

    For the sake of our women traders, the upkeep of their families and a healthy diet for all families in Ghana for the next few months, it has become necessary for our govt to intervene and ask the Burkina govt to delay their d ...
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  • Let's be Careful 3 hours ago

    U are jux a disgrace to ur stupid mother. If not which govt came before Npp? Why didn't that stupid govt did whatever u expected from npp. Wo maame kwasia wate . Look at it age, u only typed non6 like this online for teenager ...
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  • Naa 1 hour ago

    Toilet is far better than kotokoli Bawumia

  • Jimbo 52 minutes ago

    What a shame!!! Is it an achievement to negotiate for tomatoes from a neighboring country like Burkina? I am even ashamed. Akufo Addo wouldn't have done that shameful thing. He would have rather produce the tomatoes through h ...
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  • ADJOVI LAGBOR 3 hours ago

    GOOFY CUTLASS TEETH= LIES ABD STUPIDITY
    Why is it that Otokunor is the only one who is responds to silly and obvious situations? Is it that he’s been marked as a fool or someone without a functioning brain? He behaves lik ...
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  • The Truth 7 hours ago

    We should seriously engage Burkina Faso now before it's too late

  • Skriller 6 hours ago

    Gh politicians kwasiafuo, kwasiafuo mmboaa.. nitwits, animals without brains .. what is it to engage Burkina Faso about ... Kwame Nkrumah established a tomato factory at the north what happened to it .. kwasiafuo... Instead t ...
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  • Business 5 hours ago

    You are 100% right to be angry. What has become the Navrongo Tomatoes advert by our Makoala tomatoe sellers. The biggest man made dam is the TONO Irigation Dam. The objective was production of tomatoes, rice etc. Even the Bur ...
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  • Kooko shew 6 hours ago

    Brother they are more than kwasesfuo koraa they can't even analys episode they have very short memory and sight, Ibrahim troar told Ghana govt to warn Ghanaians tomatoes traders who buy tomatoes from Burkina Faso, few month ...
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  • OZYMANDIAS 6 hours ago

    Fire-eating mouth and teeth, advise your President to focus on irrigation projects to enhance the production of tomatoes in the country, instead of focusing on telling lies to the nation.

  • If Burkina is having enough tomatoes upon all sun 5 hours ago

    Then our leaders must be down their heads in shame ,if upon all free giving fertile lands and we can't produce enough tomatoes for our lives

  • Kweku 5 hours ago

    Most contracts is been given to NPP companies ,And soon I will publish these companies, this 2 parties are criminals ,we will get them soon

  • Stubborn Academy 5 hours ago

    Did our Government know about this decision earlier or BF just woke up and announced the ban?

  • Nurse @ Ridge Hospital 5 hours ago

    Massa I see tomatoes everyday in Ghana. Pass Mokorla road whether you will not see heaps of tomatoes. Watery and so what? If you don't like the Ghana tomatoes then throw it away and go to Titao. To chew their fibre. Nonsens ...
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  • Kwame Peter 5 hours ago

    Somebody call Okudzato Ablakwa for me,I have been commenting on Ghanaweb for years that after turning the turbines at Kpong the Volta River fresh water flows freely from North Tongu through Central Tongu to South Tongu into t ...
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  • Fulani 4 hours ago

    That is you not me. Who don't know of a certain idiot called Kwame Peter. He is the one talking. His usual nasuegbeh talk. No sense. Please don't respect this fool

  • Abi 4 hours ago

    Hahaha. Nkrumah, the visionary without peer, set up Nsawam Cannery about 60 years ago. What did the Danquah -Busia do? Halted operation. What did NDC do? Steal it for the Rawlingses.

    Shame, shame, shame, Ghana. Don’t cr ...
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  • Jaf 4 hours ago

    The upper east and upper west regions have the same climate like southern part of Burkina Faso.Why Ghana imports tomatoes from Burkina?

  • Test2 4 hours ago

    OOOO GHANA
    WHAT A DISGRACE
    COMMON ROTTEN TOMATOES YOU CANT GROW IT TO FEED YOUR OWN PEOPLE WITH YOUR FERTILE LAND RAINS AND SUNSHINE THEN WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO CELLPHONE COMPUTER CAR ETC ?
    USELESS COUNTRY FULL OF TALKATIV ...
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  • Hamiba 4 hours ago

    Spare us those cock and bull stories

  • Geoffrey 3 hours ago

    It completely needless for government of Ghana negotiating with, neighbouring Burkina Faso to minimise ban on tomato import to Ghana.
    We have fertile soil here in Ghana to plant more tomatoes. All we need is system structure ...
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  • Ayamga 3 hours ago

    You have been in government for one year and because of your stupidity, you have no plan whatsoever to grow our own tomato.vYour ineptitude and stupidity would mistakenly make that idiot bawumia president. The economy is at a ...
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  • Esa 3 hours ago

    Stupid African Ghanaian leaders. We can make use of our fertile land?

  • John 3 hours ago

    What do you mean ayamga

  • Ayamga 3 hours ago

    How come dr randy abbey and dr otukunor are two useless individuals

  • Esi 3 hours ago

    This ayamga guy

  • Yabi Yabi 3 hours ago

    We should be asking Dr. Bawumia about where all the monies the NPP majority government of Akufo-Addo / Dr. Bawumia government spent on 1D1D, 1D1F and $12 million paid for a project that never happened in the north went.

    Le ...
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  • No Mercy 3 hours ago

    John Mahama is Stealing the States Money to his Brother..

  • Mensah 3 hours ago

    Shame on us. Between ghana and our neighbours to the north, who should be importing tomatoes from who? Persistent sterling by Ghanaians at every level has brought us this far. Government after Government after government. We ...
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  • Lazy Government 2 hours ago

    Lazy farmers and government of Ghana .

  • Stop selling tomatoes to Ghana 2 hours ago

    Crazy mad Ghanaians. You like cheap side
    Good job Ibrahim.

  • Koti 2 hours ago

    Why are our politicians quick in telling lies? What can we tell the Burkina Faso government, to stop the ban so their factories run without tomatoes? Their leaders are using their brains; unlike our leaders. They are telling ...
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  • Traore is more sensible than any GH president apart from Nkrumah 2 hours ago

    Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso is more sensible than any GH president apart from Nkrumah.
    Ghanaian politicians are only interested in their stomach

  • KKK 1 hour ago

    You the kind of people managing affairs of Ghana? Lack of innovation, foresight and ingenuity in the people whom should know better. Instead of coming out with new ideas as to how not to rely on importation of tomatoes, you a ...
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  • Major 1 1 hour ago

    What support does our local producers need? Good seed, fertilizer, water and small financial support till harvest time. Three months to four months produce is ready. We have no excuse to import onion, and tomato. Let's start, ...
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  • OZYMANDIAS 1 hour ago

    Was it not your (P) NDC that destroyed the Pwalugu Tomato Factory that was built by Osagyefo Dr Nkrumah? Stop your nonsense and get down to repair everything that your party has destroyed in the past.

  • Alhajj Kanawu. 17 minutes ago

    OZYMANDIAS, The NDC Is Nothing But The Nation Destroyers Committee. John Jeremiya Rawlings And His Evil NDC Party Are The Most Evil Group Ghana Has Ever Produce. Both Osagyifo Dr. Kwame NKRUMAH And Ex - Head Of State General ...
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  • Soothsayer 1 hour ago

    The man with cutlasses as teeth

  • Jimbo 1 hour ago

    We should allow Burkina Faso to build their economy. They want to add value to their tomatoes for export. If we don't want their processed tomato, we have land we should cultivate for tomatoes. We are not supposed to add our ...
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  • Jimbo 57 minutes ago

    All we know in Ghana is to parade political commentators like Kwasi Pratt, Asane Tanor, and others on radio and TV to exhibit their political hatred and propaganda prowess and line their pockets with nokofioo from the NDC gov ...
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