Profitability of mangoes and a $66 million yearly loss

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• ghanaman 8 years ago

  Dear Mr. Joseph Baidoo-Williams, your article makes very interesting reading. Moreover, your insights and analysis seem well-reasoned. I am based in Germany and would like to get in touch with you but for obvious reasons, I c ...
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  Dear Mr. Joseph Baidoo-Williams, your article makes very interesting reading. Moreover, your insights and analysis seem well-reasoned. I am based in Germany and would like to get in touch with you but for obvious reasons, I cannot provide my email or other contact details in this space. I see you are on Linkedin, so I'll use that net work to get in touch.

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• HARDER@'-89 8 years ago

  l love this piece of write up, very insightful an instructive. it does shows the facade which we are always made to believe about some of fruit crops..
  another such wasteful and useless example sapping the little income of ...
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  l love this piece of write up, very insightful an instructive. it does shows the facade which we are always made to believe about some of fruit crops..
  another such wasteful and useless example sapping the little income of our farmers is cashew...
  and until we develop an integrated approach to our agric industry by developing the entire value we won't reap anything worth all the investments from the activities of our hardworking farmers..
  and again, let us discourage ourselves from the situation where all manner of people bring any crop around to our farmers in the name of cash crops, eg is cashew....irrespective of whatever its benefits is..this is becos by real assessment its only the exporters who actually profit in such instances, farmers then up pernury....

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• Asamoah 8 years ago

  Your observation is very very interesting. I wish we can get a financial analysis of cashew production for us to compare.

  Your observation is very very interesting. I wish we can get a financial analysis of cashew production for us to compare.

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• EXZ 8 years ago

  The writer contradicts himself in the second to last paragraph of the article:mango growing in Ghana is
  not profitable; rather invest in T-bills, but growing mangoes can help deforestation at least in Northern Ghana.

  The writer contradicts himself in the second to last paragraph of the article:mango growing in Ghana is
  not profitable; rather invest in T-bills, but growing mangoes can help deforestation at least in Northern Ghana.

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• Edward k Amanor. chairman, manya mang 8 years ago

  much as I enjoyed reading your piece, and the data provided, I think a lot more research is needed. mangoes thrive in the savanna areas of Ghana.As such you can see a lot around Dodowa and its environs, Somanya and manya krob ...
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  much as I enjoyed reading your piece, and the data provided, I think a lot more research is needed. mangoes thrive in the savanna areas of Ghana.As such you can see a lot around Dodowa and its environs, Somanya and manya krobo . production challenges and bumper harvest are making a very good business prospect very difficult. Every season new farms come on stream. Farm sizes are increasing. output is growing by leap and bounds. institutions like Adra have large plantation in Afram plains. Volta region is the newest entrant. Ghanaians travel to Europe to work on fruit plantation. Why can't we do same for Ghana

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