NPP's Cocoa Pricing Smoke and Mirrors (Deception).Former President John Dramani Mahama has accused President Akufo Addo of collapsing the cocoa sector.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has accused President Akufo Addo of collapsing the cocoa sector. According to John Mahama government's failed policies and programs have impacted negatively on production and this has directly worsened the socioeconomic conditions of cocoa farmers.

Former President Mahama is promising that the next NDC government would transform the cocoa sector....The former president posted on facebook with the headline ;

NPP's Cocoa Pricing Smoke and Mirrors (Deception)

 The government's just-announced increase in the farm-gate price of cocoa is a rip-off of our hardworking cocoa farmers and their families who continue to sustain our economy through their toil. 

With the international market price surging to a 46-year record high of $3,600, the government should have given our cocoa farmers their fair share of the international FOB price. 

Sadly, the government has chosen to give them a paltry GH₵1,308 per bag, constituting only 52.7% of the FOB Price of the product on the international market.

This is unfair to our cocoa farmers, who have been worse off since the NPP took over the reins of government in 2017.

In 2016, my government, in addition to the free fertiliser and free cocoa seedlings programme, gave cocoa farmers 66.06% of the FOB Price of cocoa. 

This NPP administration should have built on this foundation. They have rather increased the operational expenses of COCOBOD and reduced the international FOB share for the farmers. 

Cocoa farmers certainly deserve better!