Government welcomes Burkina Faso's decision to resume tomato trade

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  • Prof Azar 1 month ago

    This is stupid.....the ban would have force the ghanaian farmer to innovate and produce the tomato....why why!!!! Only three months ministry of agric and trade cannot organize themselves to produce tomato to meet the local m ...
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  • Mr Smith 1 month ago

    Very stupid indeed. The Burkinabes themselves will find this difficult to understand. Is it laziness or what? Very shocking!!!

  • Benji 1 month ago

    You people don't bother to read. We need Burkina tomato now while increasing our production in the medium term. The real question is why after 8 years of planting for food and jobs we are still importing tomato from Burkina? ...
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  • Ama 1 month ago

    The people you want to put the blame on were voted out of power in 2024 because hello we were very dissatisfied with them. We're in 2026 the question is what has been done since then? There is an Agric Minister firmly at pos ...
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  • Abena 1 month ago

    @ Ama. So one year and you want a magic. Swine

  • True Ghana 1 month ago

    @Abena, how long does it take for tomato to grow and harvest? Max 6 months. You too SWINE.

  • Jonny 1 month ago

    Abena, aren't you ashamed that Ghana with a much better natural landscape and resources can't produce tomatoes but to import from Bukina Faso of all places given its natural landscape? So shameful that we can't produce for ou ...
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  • Dee 1 month ago

    I thought your reply would be sensible but it turned out foolish

  • Kwadwo Owusu Acheaw 1 month ago

    So you think it must take us 10 years to take a step. What did your government begin immediately as a solution whose results must be evident in 6 months?

  • Kay 1 month ago

    Madam or who ever do u know anything about tomato growing. U r just interested in buying tomatoes paste so u don't understand what is being said

  • Kay 1 month ago

    Masa stop if someone failed and u are doing the same things how will u get different results. Who should read Wake up yourself

  • Kwasi addo 1 month ago

    Mind-bugglingly stupid. This is a lazy, visionless, armed robbing, ultra-family and friends, stealing, scandal-plagued, RLG, Gyeda, STX, Airbus, Government official 1 government. But what else did Ghanaians expect feom these ...
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  • Benji 1 month ago

    @kwasi addo Writing nonsense as usual. You should be asking yourself why after 8 years of planting for food and jobs we are still importing tomato from Burkina.

  • Blue Pen 1 month ago

    Hahahaha, say that again. Incredible nonsense paaaa. Sometimes I wonder where the NPP select or gather these kinds from.

    They say that all it takes is 3 months to solve this emergency problem. So, why didn't they use the ...
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  • Kay 1 month ago

    So 8 yrs failed agreed, n u r in the same track of failure then what's the difference. That's why we changed n u r doing the same mistake WHY

  • TRUTH BE TOLD 1 month ago

    THE THREAT TO BAN TOMATO EXPORT BY BURKINA FASO HAS EXPOSED GHANAS VULNERABILITY AND ALSO EXPOSED HOW CLUELESS OUR LEADERS ARE FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM. NIGERIA BANNED THE IMPORT OF RICE AND THE QUESTION I ASKED IS FID NIGE ...
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  • Wells 1 month ago

    Well said Bro.. Do we have to import tomatoes? Ghana. The ministry of agriculture should bow down in shame. Tomatoes? God forgive us.

  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 1 month ago

    Someone in Ghana one of these tomato ministers is benefitting from.importing tomatoes from.burkina thats why

  • Kay 1 month ago

    My guy ask again, we have lazy leaders. All they think of is chop chop n V8

  • Chaddar 1 month ago

    You are happy bcos you can create your.own

  • ObuasiMan 1 month ago

    This represents failure for Ghana - importing tomatoes from a country with much less rainfall and fertile lands than Ghana.

  • Obibini 1 month ago

    THIS IS VERY SHAMEFUL FOR GHANA TO IMPORT TOMATOES FROM BURKINA FASO. THE MINISTER OF TRADE IS VERY HAPPY ABOUT IT. VERY STUPID INDEED.

  • Miss Mae 1 month ago

    Ghanaian government have no shame ,

  • Accra 1 month ago

    The Burkinabes were not doing the Ghanaians a favour by lifting the ban. Ghanaians were their sole ready market, ready cash. They just started feeling it, hence the reverse gear. I however expected the incompetent governing s ...
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  • B. ANSAH 1 month ago

    Please, madam Minster, stop jubilating about this development....it's time for Ghana to start growing her own tomatoes

  • Ama 1 month ago

    Meanwhile the Pwalugu Tomato factory has been sitting idle for years and years!!! God please reset our reasoning

  • Gyasi 1 month ago

    Look how foolish they are,instead to produces their own, the preferences Is as usual"Already Sown"Already Made"by others but not by "Us to get More profit

  • Koti 1 month ago

    Just look at the ladies wig, she's putting a burden on her brain. No wonder she cannot bring ideas to produce tomatoes in Ghana. We have square pegs in round holes. Why should this be a WELCOME news?

  • Samy 1 month ago

    Minster of shame you can’t enpower women to plant vegetables when Ghana has better rainfall than Bukina faso shame you’ve left your self and you r village folks in shame indeed . You should have organised the youth of G ...
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  • One Village One Thief 1 month ago

    Planting for Food and Jobs was a big scam. 419. NPP chopped the money. Thieves

  • Ama 1 month ago

    Arrest them. Prosecute them. Make them spew out the money you claim they stole. In the meantime the problem needs to be fixed.

  • Kwame panin 1 month ago

    firefoghters. Be proactive!!

  • Kobie 1 month ago

    Big achievement as they are quick to announce. Of what benefit is Burkina bringing tomatoes to Ghana. Next time don't announce this

  • Kwasi addo 1 month ago

    3ny3 nea ehia ni!! Grow your own tomatoes. Lazy government. How can a country in a desert grow tomatoes foe you in a very fertile land? Pr3ko nketenkete, nkoko nketenkete government and stop the stealing. You thieves!

  • Pwalugu Pwalugu Pwalugu 1 month ago

    Where is kotokoli Bawumia hiding? Ooh I see the goat is washing his anus

  • BOY KOFI 1 month ago

    Grow your own tomatoes,Madam Minister of Trade.
    Grow your own sugar cane for the Komenda Sugar Factory to start operation.
    What's wrong with our leaders? I can't think far.Tnx.

  • wiseman 1 month ago

    @Kofi...Ghanaian leaders are mad
    Why jubilation on this? Import tomatoes from desert country?
    Disgusting.

  • Sage 1 month ago

    A kind of Minister

  • Jandam Osei Akoto 1 month ago

    There is no shortage of tomatoes in Ghana. Go to Agbogbloshie and see..plenty tomatoes. Even some are rotting. Don't you see heaps of tomatoes by the roadside when going home in your cars, trotros and taxis? . Only stupid pr ...
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  • There are no tomatoes! 1 month ago

    You are an ignorant fool and a keen idiot! There's no tomato rotting anywhere in Ghana as you read. And change your name. Use a name from your heritage. Or are you ashamed?

  • Mathew Opoku Prempeh 1 month ago

    Efo Koku is not an Ayigbe man. He is an Akan licking the anus of ntafo Bawumia

  • Tosh 1 month ago

    Don't welcome it, and go back to sleep. Self reliance now.

  • Pluto 1 month ago

    Useless government... You want to jubilate over this, after having close door mediations.. what a shame, you couldn't take advantage to boost your own agriculture sector... Bunch of fools with no vision....

  • Ken Ofori Atta 1 month ago

    @ Pluto. Was your Akufo Monkey Addo able to do that? Pluto you are an idiot. Have you taken your bath today? Fool. Go to the market and see heaps of tomatoes. Kwasea you think you are wise

  • Ray papa 1 month ago

    So what, grow your own.

  • Kobby 1 month ago

    Useless people in government!
    All that you people know is propaganda.
    This is opportunity to make an agribusiness policy but this brainless clueless government have missed it.
    Thunder fire you!

  • Amotia 1 month ago

    As if your kwasea Akufo Monkey Addo was able to plant tomatoes. Women started going to Burkina is not today. Stop your silly jandam

  • Shai 1 month ago

    We have so much water in Ghana. We should be growing our own tomatoes. Last year, i planted some in my house, harvested much more than i needed. Had to give to my neighbours. This time around I'm going to preserve it. All we ...
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  • Kojois 1 month ago

    Lazy approach. Think outside the box a little. Always bread and butter why?

  • Dazzo 1 month ago

    Ghana aint we ashame tomatoes we can't plant ourselves. We should go learn agriculture from Nigeria and other africa nations.

  • Sexy Don Don 1 month ago

    Animal. Can't you see plenty tomatoes in town? Begging to be bought? Go to Mokorla Kwasea Dwaaso and see the amount of tomatoes being sold besides akrantie bini and roasted bat meat, your village favourite delicacy with ban ...
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  • MR SEWORNU R OWUSU 1 month ago

    The question is why can't produce her tomatoes. Why do we have to rely on Burkina Faso.

  • OSAFO KANTANKA 1 month ago

    The most “Dangerous People in Ghana Are the “TOMATOES “ queen sellers. They monopolise everything. Some of them were the causes of sudden Tomatoes imports from B/ Faso. I remember very well when one of these women were ...
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  • Evans 1 month ago

    And so what? This lady doesn't impress at all. Eiiih what a minister? This is a great opportunity for the youth to start their own Tomato business. Madam!!!
    How long does it take to produce tomato?

  • Amina 1 month ago

    Operation feed yourself and stop relying on landlocked Burkina Faso. What stops Ghana becoming a leading tomato hub. We had it in Kwame Nkrumah's regime

  • Slavery as old as Adam 1 month ago

    God save Ghana. Ghana can't produce tomatoes to feed ourselves but we can import SUVs, V8s. Are our brains filled with worms

  • Bonus Baba 1 month ago

    I want to address Madam Ofosu Adjare on this issue. If a fry desert like Burkina Faso is able to turn things around and make tomato production a National pride. You are in Ghana bragging about Sika Koko, all natural res ...
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  • Joe 1 month ago

    Are we not long over due to be growing our own. Why cant we learn

  • Kay 1 month ago

    So u are happy, are not ashamed. U are there instead increasing tomatoe production u are happy with Burkina export. Is your country not senior to Burkina, don't u have what it takes like Burkina. Instead of u thing of growing ...
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  • Bug babs 1 month ago

    Tomato??? Nonsense

  • Bug babs 1 month ago

    AHH ghana are we serious tomatoes???

  • BerylRichards 1 month ago

    Nkwasiansem....

    We have better land and better practises yet we go begging for tomatoes.

    For decades we have sat Akomadan tomatoes have been rotting year in year out.

    we are not a serious nation!!