Graduates And Diploma Certificates Holders Must Take Over Cocoa Growing And Management Operations In Ghana

Ghana is being developed at a faster rate, which indicates that now many things are being produced in this country, and those things we develop must be in a specialized state. We need to develop these things well and label them neatly and nicely to attract customers and investors that want to invest in these various sectors in the country. One area where much specialization and investments need to go is the cocoa sector, where the principle of comparative advantage beckons us to spend some time and money to develop it well.

BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE

What Is Comparative Advantage?
Comparative advantage is an economy's power to bring about or manufacture a particular good or service at a lower opportunity cost than its trading partners. It is a principle that ensures a comparative advantage we have as a nation to produce something that our neighboring countries could not do more than us. This is used to explain why companies, countries, or individuals can benefit from trade.

When one employs the principle in the international arena, it is utilized to portray international trade, where comparative advantage means the products that a country can produce more cheaply or easily than other countries. Usually, it illustrates the benefits of trade that some contemporary economists now acknowledge that focusing only on comparative advantages can bring about exploitation and depletion of the country's resources.

The principle of comparative advantage is popularly ascribed to the political economist David Ricardo who wrote this in his book entitled On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation in 1817. However, some economists believe Ricardo's mentor, James Mill, originated and propounded this theory in his earlier analysis.

In sum, the principle states:

• a nation’s capability to produce a particular good or service at a lower opportunity cost than its trading partners.

• an opportunity cost as a factor for analysis in choosing between different options for production.
• that countries will engage in trade with one another, exporting the goods that they have a relative advantage in.
• there are downsides to focusing only on a country's comparative advantages, which can exploit the country's labor and natural resources.
• there is an absolute advantage to the uncontested superiority of a country to produce a particular good better.

BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE

Based on this principle, I suggest some ideas concerning the modern manner of carrying out development in the cocoa sector in Ghana. These consist of the following:

BASIC PROJECT COCOA INITIATIVE (BPCI)
This is where the government set aside 10 million US Dollars to encourage young graduates to go into Cocoa farming. Allowances and incentives will be paid to graduates to take over this farming from their relatives who are old and cannot continue working. Also, those who want to purchase land and cultivate their cocoa farming.

a) A graduate whose father is old
b) A graduate whose father-in-law or relative is old.

c) A graduate who wants to purchase his/her land

These graduates should be paid allowances to embark on working in this sector. They should be able to thrive and take over to initiate modernization and the introduction of modern equipment, such as tractors and combined harvesters to energize the farming sector. Their aging relatives should be compensated to give up land and cocoa farms to the younger generation of farmers.

PURPOSE
To allow the educated to become Cocoa farmers just as in the West, farmers comprise the most educated graduates in the country.

BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITIES SHOULD BE FUNDED (Specialization in Cocoa Cultivation Affairs)

2 YEARS DIPLOMA STUDIES IN COCOA AFFAIRS

This is for all SHS graduates/25 years old citizens who want to study everything about how to cultivate, manage and harvest COCOA farms.

POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN COCOA STUDIES/AFFAIRS

First-degree holders who want to study how to cultivate, manage and harvest COCOA farms.

These are future professionals to cultivate cocoa and Coffee beans and manage and harvest them as the most important cash crops in the country. They should be helping in the industries such as the manufacturing of chocolates, cocoa drinks, cocoa medicines, cocoa paints (peeled skins), pharmaceuticals, etc. Mixed farming could be introduced to preserve land. For example, cocoa and coffee could be mixed, as well as tea and pawpaw farming can be combined.

INVENTIONS, MODERN EQUIPMENT
Geography: studying the best climatic conditions for the crops.

Inventions: inventing drying machines to quicken the drying processes. Devices to open up the pods easily.

Efficient storage systems and pollination.
Research Department already at Tafo, University of Development Studies, Kwadaso in Kumasi.

Government must collaborate with Dr. Apostle Engineer Kwadwo Safo to help with the development of Cocoa Machines or modern equipment at his New University in Ghana.

TYPICAL COCOA FARMER'S COTTAGE
Cement-built and corrugated iron roof house with electrification.

1. Two-bedroom, a hall, and a kitchen. Toilet and bath. (Garage)
2. Three-bed rooms, a hall, and a kitchen. Toilet and bath. (Garage)
3. Three-bed rooms, a hall and a kitchen. 2 toilets and 2 bathrooms and a Guest room. (2 Garages).

HOUSING SCHEMES FOR COCOA FARMERS

1. Cocoa Farmers Housing Scheme (CFHS).
2. Cocoa roads and special trucks
3. Cocoa scholarships for the children and relatives of cocoa farmers only
4. Fair and already patronized cocoa companies to help with the buying
5. Cocoa loans to farmers