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Cocoa over the years has been Ghana’s most leading cash crop with the highest foreign exchange. Its contribution towards the growth of the economy has been very vital.
But its yield is however diminishing due to some few challenges that confronts the cocoa sector.
Some of the challenges include inadequate support to farmers, lack of effective government policies to stabilize the sector and unimproved living conditions of the farmers.
It is on this background that necessitated the Pink Fm’s #restoringGH team to embark on a documentary journey to some parts of the Ashanti region that are notably known for cocoa production.
The team made a tour in some farms around Jamasi, Apaah, Kyekyewere and Yonso.
Some of the farmers who spoke to the team have made passionate appeal to the government to carve effective policies that will result in bumper yields through out the seasons.
The farmers called on government to adequately support them with farming inputs like chemicals, fertilizers and seedlings as well as working enough to ensure a proper living conditions for them.
Nana Bafour Akoto, the Baamuhene of Apaah who is also a cocoa farmer in a conversation with the team called on government to activate effectively the cocoa mass spraying exercise which was introduced by the Kuffuor administration since the exercise has been very helpful and would help improve the cocoa sector if done effectively.
He however called on government to implement policies that will see after cocoa farmers when they grow old.
Story: Akwasi Addo and Kwabena Darkwa/ Pinknews
