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Nov
Cocoa farmers in the Berekum West District of the Bono Region are demanding government action as a matter of urgency to further review the cocoa prices for the 2022/2023 season. According to them, the recent upward adjustment is woefully inadequate and fails to take into account the high cost of living in the country. In October, the government increased the farmgate price of cocoa beans by 21 percent, from GH¢660 to GH¢800 a bag. That works out to GHS12,800 per tonne for the main crop season- 2022-2023, which began on October 7. But the cocoa farmers are dissatisfied with the…