Ghana Civil Society Cocoa Platform

Cocoa farmers with the Ghana Civil Society Cocoa Platform (GCCP) have warned that the country could lose more productive cocoa farms to illegal mining or palm production if the farm gate price for cocoa beans is not increased to make up for the high cost of production. They said the continued rise in the cost of farm inputs such as fertilisers, pesticides, transporting of beans and farm machinery as well as the cost of labour is affecting cocoa production, causing them to lose huge sums of money. “We call on the government to intervene to make farm inputs readily accessible…