Government is committed to ensuring that Ghana’s farmers get greater value from their toil, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said. He said the situation where Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire accounted for more than 60 per cent of the worlds cocoa output but earned a meager $5.75 billion out of the sale of cocoa beans in 2015, was not acceptable. “This means that the farmers whose toil and sweat produced 60 per cent plus of the world’s cocoa, earned only 5.75 percent of the global value of their activity, from a chocolate market, which was worth some $100 billion in 2015. “This cannot, and should not continue,” President Akufo-Addo said on Monday, when Mary Barnard, President of one of the world’s largest snacks companies, Mondelez International Inc, called on him at the Flagstaff House in Accra. Mary Barnard’s call on the President was to familiarise herself with the company’s operations in Ghana, and also to expand the company’s “Cocoa Life” project, which “works with partners to...
