He introduced cocoa as cash crop, but before then the missionaries have been using it as ornamental crop. Do facts checking before publishing news.
He introduced cocoa as cash crop, but before then the missionaries have been using it as ornamental crop. Do facts checking before publishing news.
ELINAM 8 years ago
The fact is, are we maximizing the full potentials of cocoa as other nations are doing on our slavish back?
Or are we just so proud about cultivating it for the good profit of others including the new kids on the block -the ... read full comment
The fact is, are we maximizing the full potentials of cocoa as other nations are doing on our slavish back?
Or are we just so proud about cultivating it for the good profit of others including the new kids on the block -the desert dwelling Arabs?
Our lack of looking at things with some level of profundity is the bane of our backwardness.
Ghana is becoming too backward for the modern world simply because we do not believe in own capacity to do nothing for ourselves.
Unjust 8 years ago
Thank you Elinam.
Thank you Elinam.
Ada Boy 8 years ago
Kofi,what is your beef with the reporting?You should man enough to say you are jealous of the facts they stand.Our history clearly stated that Tetteh Quarshie introduced cocoa to the Gold Coast.Tell your fellow Ghanaians here ... read full comment
Kofi,what is your beef with the reporting?You should man enough to say you are jealous of the facts they stand.Our history clearly stated that Tetteh Quarshie introduced cocoa to the Gold Coast.Tell your fellow Ghanaians here what you meant by missionaries using it as an ornaments?
ELINAM 8 years ago
Do not forget in the lectures how we let Tetteh Quashie down in his dream to create a viable cocoa industry in the Gold Coast now Ghana.
The Omission of our lack of innovation and adoption of smart brains to create multi in ... read full comment
Do not forget in the lectures how we let Tetteh Quashie down in his dream to create a viable cocoa industry in the Gold Coast now Ghana.
The Omission of our lack of innovation and adoption of smart brains to create multi industrial cocoa products for export rather than raw cocoa export, that could create jobs for the youth won't do the lecture any good.
Tetteh Quashie did not bring cocoa to Ghana to benefit Cadbury of England,Nestle of Switzerland ,Cote d'Ore of Belgium and Hershey of US.
Each of the aforementioned companies in countries where cocoa could not grow have more CAPITAL importing raw cocoa at a slavish price and turning it into high price products than GHANA
In the case of Cote d'Ore of Belgium, everything about that company is that of Ghana's former identity. Cote d'Ore means "Gold coast" in French and the emblem of the company is the ELEPHANT, emblem of the Gold Coast.
So here's a company that had stolen everything that belong to a people and made sure they take the cocoa too at a price so low so they could create a profitable enterprise.
In 1984 when we first reached Belgium as refugees, the company was operating in an old factory near the Midi train station. Even at that time, that factory was larger than the chocolate factory we have in Tema.
By 1986, Cote d'Ore had a new ultra modern and much larger factory in the Flemish side of Belgium and some level of guiltiness had made them employed couple of Ghanaians who had work documents at the time.
And that's the story of Belgium and its golden fate with cocoa that I personally had witnessed.
Switzerland and England are also having their golding moments.
But what is Ghana's golden moment in all this?
We as a nation had failed to maximize the full potentials of cocoa due to corruption and lack of innovation.
The COLONIAL powers showed us how to export raw cocoa and that's what we're doing full stop.
Three days ago, the uninspiring and the none innovative COCOBOD - A SUPER CORRUPT ENTITY - had announced the partnership with an Arab nation - a desert people - with no experience in cocoa farming to come help them expand cocoa production in Ghana?
What COCOBOD had failed to know in their over 60 years in dealing with cocoa is that these Arabs had studied the likes of Cote d'Ore and Nestle and realized that if the countries that own these companies had no single cocoa tree but are making billions of dollars where the Ghanaian remained the slave to break his back to produce the crop, then any nation smart enough to study this can also take Ghanaians for a fool and equally make such billions.
If your lecture is only going to be centered on the projection of the great Tetteh Quarshie as a son from Osu and the pride you want to glean out of it without touching on the slavery that our own elites had attached to cocoa production in face of all the billions of dollars every European nation had continue make as an easy profit while we as a nation wallow in poverty, then I warn you to scrap the lecture.
Tetteh Quarshie did not bring cocoa to Ghana for the benefit of the Europeans. He brought that seed to the Gold Coast under very difficult arrangement which would have got him in to great danger with colonial Portugal controlling Fernandopo.
B. Q.usa 8 years ago
Thank you God,am happy that the truth has came out all this years.we the Quarshie families had fight for long time.
Thank you God,am happy that the truth has came out all this years.we the Quarshie families had fight for long time.
PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago
PRESIDENT KENNEDY SAID"ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU,BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY"
cOCOA INTRODUCED INTO THE NATION BY TETTEH QUARSHIE CREATED THOUSANDS OF JOBS TO THE NATION.
NOWADAYS THE PRESENT GENERAT ... read full comment
PRESIDENT KENNEDY SAID"ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU,BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY"
cOCOA INTRODUCED INTO THE NATION BY TETTEH QUARSHIE CREATED THOUSANDS OF JOBS TO THE NATION.
NOWADAYS THE PRESENT GENERATION IN GHANA WILL STEAL MONEY FROM THE NATION AND PUT IT IN FOREIGHN BANKS.
Asempa 8 years ago
Here we go again, all good things originating from Ghana are always greeted with cynicism and despair. We talk too much, never appreciating our lot; pasture is always greener everywhere but Ghana! Kudos to our Ga Chiefs, this ... read full comment
Here we go again, all good things originating from Ghana are always greeted with cynicism and despair. We talk too much, never appreciating our lot; pasture is always greener everywhere but Ghana! Kudos to our Ga Chiefs, this lecture is a brilliant idea
Uncle 8 years ago
And I will say it is the turn of non-Akans to take the mantle of cocoa cultivation and production to help rake in the needed foreign exchange for mother Ghana. We Ashantis and the rest of the Akan folks have had our fair shar ... read full comment
And I will say it is the turn of non-Akans to take the mantle of cocoa cultivation and production to help rake in the needed foreign exchange for mother Ghana. We Ashantis and the rest of the Akan folks have had our fair share of working hard toward national development. Those NDC communicators turned around and called us " cocoa ase nkurasefo" to wit cocoa farm villagers. It now the turn of Ewes, Gas and our Northern brothers to take to cocoa farming. We also deserve to sit in the offices and sip coffee and wear tie. We can no longer afford to remain in the farms with our children for others to benefit from our toil and labour. Enough is enough.
Ekow Samuel. 8 years ago
Not bad. God bless oman Ghana.
Not bad. God bless oman Ghana.
Kwame Adjei-Mensah Atlanta GA 8 years ago
There we go again : why do you have to play the tribal or the political card on every issue ? What necessitated this tribal nonesense? Why don't you talk for yourself ? Who has ever forced anyone to be a cocoa farmer ? Who ha ... read full comment
There we go again : why do you have to play the tribal or the political card on every issue ? What necessitated this tribal nonesense? Why don't you talk for yourself ? Who has ever forced anyone to be a cocoa farmer ? Who has ever prevented whom from wearing a tire ,sipping coffee or working in any office ? Just ponder the absurdity of your utterance.Is cocoa farming in Ghana manned solely by Ashantis and Akans as you alluded ? A cocoa farm in Bolegatanga,Adabraka keta or Aflao ? Do you know anything about the law of competitive advantage ? What are the sources of beef and fish that you eat ? Please don't involve all Akans in pursuance of your Selfish People's Agenda.Just wake up and break loose of every propensity for selflessness and unjustifiable antagonism The Selfish People's Agenda you and your cohorts endorse is the reason we are wallowing in this socio -economic predicament.
He introduced cocoa as cash crop, but before then the missionaries have been using it as ornamental crop. Do facts checking before publishing news.
The fact is, are we maximizing the full potentials of cocoa as other nations are doing on our slavish back?
Or are we just so proud about cultivating it for the good profit of others including the new kids on the block -the ...
read full comment
Thank you Elinam.
Kofi,what is your beef with the reporting?You should man enough to say you are jealous of the facts they stand.Our history clearly stated that Tetteh Quarshie introduced cocoa to the Gold Coast.Tell your fellow Ghanaians here ...
read full comment
Do not forget in the lectures how we let Tetteh Quashie down in his dream to create a viable cocoa industry in the Gold Coast now Ghana.
The Omission of our lack of innovation and adoption of smart brains to create multi in ...
read full comment
Thank you God,am happy that the truth has came out all this years.we the Quarshie families had fight for long time.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY SAID"ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU,BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY"
cOCOA INTRODUCED INTO THE NATION BY TETTEH QUARSHIE CREATED THOUSANDS OF JOBS TO THE NATION.
NOWADAYS THE PRESENT GENERAT ...
read full comment
Here we go again, all good things originating from Ghana are always greeted with cynicism and despair. We talk too much, never appreciating our lot; pasture is always greener everywhere but Ghana! Kudos to our Ga Chiefs, this ...
read full comment
And I will say it is the turn of non-Akans to take the mantle of cocoa cultivation and production to help rake in the needed foreign exchange for mother Ghana. We Ashantis and the rest of the Akan folks have had our fair shar ...
read full comment
Not bad. God bless oman Ghana.
There we go again : why do you have to play the tribal or the political card on every issue ? What necessitated this tribal nonesense? Why don't you talk for yourself ? Who has ever forced anyone to be a cocoa farmer ? Who ha ...
read full comment