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Cocoa farmers demand their monies; give PBC a month to pay

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  • BlackC 7 years ago

    PBC is a publicly traded company. Should be some resolution to this issue.

  • Nana 7 years ago

    What the farmers are saying is true and it's very disheartening. i am a purchasing clerk of the company and at yawmatwa which is closer to the aforementioned towns in the district. as i talk right now 16 bags of cocoa which i ...
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  • Agya Kwabena 7 years ago

    The $1.8 billion syndicated loan taken by Cocoa Board to purchase cocoa for this year was all stollen by Opuni and his NDC so there is no money to pay for the produce. NPP will have to find fresh money to pay for cocoa purcha ...
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  • SOCRATES 7 years ago

    COCOBOD WAS CREATED AS A MONOPOLY & LIKE ALL MONOPOLIES THEY ARE COMFORTABLY INSULATED FROM COMPETITION, THEY ARE PAMPERED WITH SWISS SALARIES ON THE DONKEY BACKS OF MAINLY ILLITERATE PEASANT FARMERS. LIKE DINOSAURS PLODDING ...
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  • Paul Binder 7 years ago

    All this your American theory doesnt wash.Oattara in La Cote D'Ivoire has done that and now tons of cocoa are pilled up at Abidjan and San Pedro ports.The free market buyers are refusing to take up the cocoa they had prèvio ...
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  • ADWENE PA N.Y USA 7 years ago

    Our farmers must be well TREATED. We
    should not let them struggle and suffer
    before their ;PRODUCE are BOUGHT and
    PAID. This is not GODLY at all. The GOVERNMENT
    must INVOLVE IMMEDIATELY, and any ...
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  • paul Owusu 7 years ago

    the district purchasing office's are using the money to buy cocoa from Ivory coast and they are saying they don't have money

  • paul Owusu 7 years ago

    I have seen a lot of D.P.O in my Area , sefwi asempaneye transporting cocoa from ivory coast whiles the purchasing clerks too are buying on credit