Cocoa beans shortage forces shutdown of Ghanaian cocoa processors - Report

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  • SACK OKRAKU NOW 1 year ago

    WHEN YOU POLITICIANS WERE DIVERTING THE COCOA BOARD SCHOLARSHIPS FOR YOUR KIDS AND RELATIVES YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE SMART,. NOW PEOPLE DONT LIKE GROWING COCOA ANYMORE GALAMSEY HAS TAKEN OVER LIKE IT OR NOT GALAMSEY IS MORE LUCR ...
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  • Huda 1 year ago

    Mismanagement under akuffo addo has collapsed the cocoa sector. Users governance.

  • mr amin 1 year ago

    Crop farming is tedious but the famers get nothing in return the buyers cheat them

  • Deliberate intentions 1 year ago

    Cocoa production will come to a halt if Ghanaians make unpardonable mistake to vote for Mahama who promised to force universities to train galamseyers how to destroy our cocoa farms to prospect for gold.Folks remember this is ...
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  • Nana Atuah 1 year ago

    i find this writer very naive, ignorant with a warped sense of thinking. You and your Present choice of leaders have already brought the industry to a halt. I was only surprised that an industry that we have always been proud ...
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  • Sweet in the middle 1 year ago

    No wonder you guys thinks like your party symbol no sense of reasoning. You and your foolish leaders today have brought us to where we are today. Under the same mahama cocoa was being produced in high quantity and farmers can ...
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  • AKWESI 1 year ago

    IDIOT DELIBERATE INTENTIONS, DO YOU THE CURRENT ANNUAL OUTPUT OF COCOA IN GHANA. YOUR USELESS GOVERNMENT CAME TO MEET 96900 THOUSAND METRIC TONNES IN 2016/17 COCOA SEASON. WE'RE STRUGGLING TO GET 600,000 METRIC TONNES. THIS ...
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  • Ama Nelson 1 year ago

    Look at idiot and clearly you've no understanding over the subject matter. Foolish NPP idiot

  • Ama Nelson 1 year ago

    You see how you don't make sense just like your useless president, Nana Addo? No sense at all!!

  • Cashpapa 1 1 year ago

    Nothing seems to be working under this government led by the useless nana bawumia

  • Linda Osei 1 year ago

    @Cashpapa1, COCOBOD is going down for sale oooo....you've a foolish Chief Executive with no competence to handle the sector -- only interested in contracts

  • Okyere 1 year ago

    Akufo Addo is getting punished by karma, the worst is yet to come

  • Cashpapa 1 year ago

    Ghanaians will not make mistake to vote for the useless npp government again ooo ,they don't know anything

  • Yaw Ghanaba 1 year ago

    The country has been jeopardise into a state of catastrophe by Bawumia and Akuffo addo. MAY GOD PUNISH ANYONE WHO TRIES TO FORCE BAWUMIA ON US!!!

  • Abigail Ofori 1 year ago

    @Yaw Ghanaba, this useless gov't is no different from the stupid COCOBOD'S Mgt

  • Portia Owusu 1 year ago

    Oh yes...we've no country again ooo!! NPP is evil

  • Sulemana Haruna 1 year ago

    Such a useless Government

  • Yaw Ghanaba 1 year ago

    I will choose satan over NPP.

  • Hon Rasty 1 year ago

    But for jaundice infested brains, which sane mind would want to vote for a gov't that has superintendent over the collapse of businesses and render state companies unproductive?

  • Tina Otu 1 year ago

    @Hon Tasty, you've said it all oooo nothing is working and everything is collapsed

  • C.K 1 year ago

    Look where bad leadership brought us. Damn, I never saw this day coming. Akufo-Addo and Bawumia have messed us up, big-time.

  • Lois Armah 1 year ago

    @C.K, oh yes and yet you've few foolish NPP idiots still defending the mismanagement and poor leadership

  • C.K 1 year ago

    Akufo-Addo and Bawumia have successfully made nonsense of all the strides we've made on our cocoa sector. Terrible leader's

  • Pat Osei 1 year ago

    CK, hmmm is Nana Addo human being at all? So empty and arrogant

  • Cole Pfeipher 1 year ago

    These people have run down Cocobod. Criminal organisation in power

  • Vida Sam 1 year ago

    @Cole Pfeipher, they've raped and assaulted COCOBOD

  • Nyarnnor Charles 1 year ago

    It looks like everything is messed up in the country
    bibiaa ay3 basaa

    useless and corrupt government

  • Mavis Mensah 1 year ago

    Nyarnnor Charles, God save us from this corrupt and useless NPP gov't and COCOBOD leadership

  • Jean Kelvin 1 year ago

    Companies are folding up every now and then, and u have a snr person like Kofi b3ntil trying to exonerate this failure

  • Bawumia 1 year ago

    When the centre can not hold everything go on without future. May God protect us from the second comings of the elephant through Bawumia

  • De. Political Governor 1 year ago

    This gov't is really a waste of our time. Very clueless of governance and very corrupt to the core.
    Bunch of thieves.

  • Lizzy Oppong 1 year ago

    It's not only a waste of time but also a burden. No sensible Ghanaian will defend or vote for this NPP

  • Bozzman captain 1 year ago

    Eiii Bawumia, you uselessness as veep is glaring at us

  • A. Walid Jnr 1 year ago

    Walaahi this one shock me big time. Ghana importing cocoa from our neighbors now??

  • AKWESI 1 year ago

    AKUFFO ADDO IS A CURSED ANIMAL. ANYTHING HE TOUCHED IS COMPLETELY DESTROYED. COCOBOD WAS ONCE AN ENVIABLE STATE INSTITUTION, IT'S NOW SADDLED WITH GARGANTUAN DEBT THAT SEEM IMPOSSIBLE TO PAY. HOW DID WE GET HERE IN SEVEN ...
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  • A. Walid Jnr 1 year ago

    YET shameless people are making noise for the empty Bawumia. Walaahi the man is a liability to Ghana. NPP never again!!!

  • Bozzman captain 1 year ago

    Eiii Bawumia, you uselessness as veep is glaring at us, you couldn't manage the small we left in your care how can you be president,under you and our boss watch, every sector is broke

  • Lois Armah 1 year ago

    @Bozzman Captain, don't mention that dishonored name. He is cursed

  • Sweet in the middle 1 year ago

    Nothing is working under this useless government led by Akuffo and Bawumia. All the companies are closing under this useless government . What a shame.

  • Esther Amos 1 year ago

    Sweet, hmmm we've in our hands a terrible gov't

  • AKWESI 1 year ago

    AKUFFO ADDO AND BAWUMIA GOVERNMENT RECENTLY TOOK USD800 MILLION TO BUY COCOA FOR 2023/24 COCOA SEASON, YET THE IMPOVERISHED FARMER DOES NOT GET PAID WHEN HE SELLS HIS HARVEST. WE ARE STILL IN THE MAIN CROP SEASON AND WE CAN ...
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  • Sweet in the middle 1 year ago

    God will punish any idiot who want to deceive Ghanaians to vote for this useless guy to be president after Akuffo Addo. Bawumia never again… NPP never again

  • Aduana ba 1 year ago

    So is this where our cocoa sector has gotten to under Akuffo Addo/ Bawumia government? If you get an unprincipled and useless CEO like Boahen Aidoo, this is what you get. This is a sad moment for our country

  • Reindolf Eli 1 year ago

    Not only are businesses in other sectors folding up, now cocoa that is a central part of our economy is even being imported by this useless government. We owe ourselves as a country to vote out these clueless bunch before the ...
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  • Elsie Amoah 1 year ago

    R Eli, both Nana Addo and NPP have become a problem. Sad to be a Ghanaian!!

  • Eva Abu 1 year ago

    NPP have destroyed COCOBOD and the cocoa industry. Sad!!!

  • Kwesi 1 year ago

    The center can not hold… Ghana’s cocoa industry has collapsed

  • Eunice Obour 1 year ago

    Wallahi NPP is cursed beyond redemption!! Nothing is working with them and so much hardships and suffering

  • Eunice Obour 1 year ago

    Eiish COCOBOD collapsing under corrupt NPP gov't. There must be consequences for the actors

  • Full npp 1 year ago

    Is sad most companies are folding up under my own NPP government. What could the problem be?

  • Dzidepo 1 year ago

    Shame Nana Addo and Bawumia, pure mismanagement under the competent ones

  • Esther 1 year ago

    Akufo Addo ha failed totally. The only pride of Ghana is gone. Destroyer Akufo Addo.

  • Checkcheck 1 year ago

    Akufo Addo NPP has disgraced Ghana. Eiii. The cocoa industry is also gone. Ghanaians future is bleak. Akufo Addo is dying with Ghana. He's a terrible curse on Ghana.

  • Okyere 1 year ago

    They are raping COCOBOD and while still persecuting Dr Opuni, one of the greatest CEOs that ever headed COCOBOD. His transformational ideas changed cocobod and saw a steady increase in cocoa production. Akufo Addo's Boahen Ai ...
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  • Dove Kojo 1 year ago

    Now Tetteh Quashie's Ghana is importing Cocoa beans from neighbouring counties. We have the men ampa.

  • Kwasi Afum 1 year ago

    Nothing works in this country any longer; one time a cocoa hub; due to the greasiness and super incompetence of a few who unfortunately have been given power everything is spoiling. NPP smh