Gov't Has Refused To Pay Bonuses Of Cocoa Farmers For Six Years - NDC MP Alleges
Minority Spokesperson on Agriculture, Hon. Eric Opoku, has revealed that administration has for the beyond six years would not pay rewards for cocoa ranchers.
As per him, cocoa ranchers has been passed on to their destiny under the Akufo Addo government notwithstanding the gigantic penances they are making to make their produce the foundation of the economy.
Talking on Okay Fm's Ade Akye Abia program, Hon Opoku, who is additionally the Member of Parliament for Asunafo South, cleared up that due for lack of common sense by the NPP government, most cocoa ranchers are steadily going to cash crop cultivating by wandering into different yields like elastic.
He depicted cocoa ranchers as the least fortunate ranchers in the nation contrasted with the partners in sub-Saharan Africa.
"At the point when costs of cocoa goes up on the deliberate market, government through Cocobod should compute the premium gathered on the value unit of cocoa and ascertain the premium for the ranchers however government has chosen to put the cash in other unbeneficial adventures which doesn't help the cocoa farmer....
"In such manner, cocoa ranchers the nation over have not gotten rewards for the beyond six (6) years from government through COCOBOD. In the mean time, cocobod has the monetary fortitude to spend on different things however absolutely not on the government assistance of cocoa ranchers.
"It will intrigue you to realize that cocoa ranchers have depended on chopping down trees to establish rubber....Some cocoa ranchers in the Eastern Region are taking steps to chop down their trees and supplant them with elastic assuming government can't deliver assets to the Local Buying Companies to empower them pay for their produce.
"Absence of installment by these Cocoa Buying Companies is making a great deal of monetary imperatives ranchers as they try to settle their wards' school expenses and work on their vocations," he added.
Once more the NDC MP, notwithstanding, gave the confirmation that should the resistance National Democratic Party (NDC) recapture power in 2024, the party will guarantee that cocoa cultivating becomes appealing to the young.
".....it is rarely past the point of no return, when the NDC gets back to drive 2024, we will return cocoa ranchers to their superb days and make it more appealing for the overflowing youth who have been jobless to wander into cultivating which will make a wellspring of business for them," Hon Opoku expressed.
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