Development Discourse with Amos SAFO: Unprecedented Crisis in the Cocoa Sector

Development Discourse with Amos SAFO: Unprecedented crisis in the cocoa sector

On Thursday February 12, 2025, President John Mahama convened an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss what has emerged as an unprecedented crisis in the cocoa sector. For the first time since independence in 1957, a government has failed to pay cocoa farmers after buying and stocking their cocoa for four months. As if the failure to pay was not enough, cabinet also approved the reduction of a bag of cocoa from GHS3,625 to GH¢2,587, a 28 percent …

Amin Adam Slams Govt Over Cocoa Challenges

Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam   Former Finance Minister and Member of Parliament (MP) for Karaga Constituency in the Northern Region, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, aka Anta, has identified the excessive pumping of dollars to shore up the cedi as one of the factors responsible for the cocoa sector challenges. While it is sometimes acceptable to do so, doing it excessively as being witnessed today has negative repercussions, which is what is being played out i…

Cocoa crisis: What Mahama is doing is not good at all – Omane Acheampong

Nicholas Omane Acheampong has turned his criticism toward the government’s handling of the cocoa sector, describing its explanation for reducing producer prices as unconvincing. The musician took issue with the claim that falling international cocoa prices justified lowering the purchasing value for farmers. “That excuse does not hold,” he said. “You cannot simply tell farmers that because prices have fallen somewhere, they must carry the burden…