Cocoa stakeholders meet on Ghanaian government’s new Inputs Policy

Access to cocoa inputs for farmers is expected to scale up with the introduction of the new Cocoa Input Policy soon to be implemented.

The policy would ensure Ghanaian cocoa farmers get requisite rations of cocoa inputs at subsidised prices on the market. Mr William Agyapong Quaitoo, the Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, speaking at the Ghana Cocoa Inputs Workshop on Friday, said the policy where free inputs had benefitted a section of farmers to the neglect of others, had not yielded desired results and was thus unsustainable. The workshop, hosted by Ghana Cocoa Board with the support of the World Cocoa Foundation and Solidaridad, was to deliberate and suggest ways to enhance the policy for the growth of the cocoa sector and to increase production of the crop to the government’s target of one million tonnes in 2020.

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