Ghana: More cocoa=less price

The identity of is cocoa – not gold. For the past years, galamsey has destroyed many water bodies and cocoa farms. Cocoa farmers are one of the poorest workers in . Children are still working on cocoa farms. The price cocoa farmers get for their produce depends on international exchange bodies, not on the real value of the cocoa beans. Financial investors determine the price of cocoa through COCOBOD not on individual negotiations by cocoa farmers. Chocolate products are not subject to speculation. „FairTrade“ and other initiatives are a scam for farmers, consumers, and nations to preserve the exploitation by the white man on a higher socially accepted level. cocoa is smuggled into Togo to raise higher prices. Ivory Coast and (approx. 70%) of the world market, have not formed an organization with other South American cocoa-producing countries to voice and preserve their interests.

The new government of has announced its initiative to increase cocoa farming by another 200.000 hectares. Unless government workers are not deployed to farm these lands but given to private cocoa farmers the question must be addressed how much these poor farmers in the end will harvest from the lands to feed their families. More cocoa farming will result in more cocoa beans. The existing cocoa farms destroyed by mercury can over the next 4-5 years be revitalized with the help of industrial hemp that will clean the poisoned soil. For cocoa trees to bear fruits takes 3-5 years depending on conventional or hybrid seedlings. Alley Farming or Forest Farming ensures fires and diseases will not hit the farms and ensures organic farming favorable to consumers.

The increase in cocoa on the international market leads to a decline in price. Unless markets are not increased by a der population ready to consume more chocolate products or/and stimulation of existing consumers and potential consumers around the world. In either case, the local market of cannot absorb the increase in cocoa production for consumption at a price needed to see cocoa farmers thrive and send their children to school or universities not to mention to become Millionaires like rubber farmers in South America in the good olden days. A decent income for the start seems to be attractive for people to venture into cocoa farming and be part of the new initiative. The money to achieve this goal lies in the hands of the white man. For raw cocoa beans he will not give a better price but play the fluet of overcapacity on the international market; subsequently bringing the price down.

Chocolate products are the best way out to avoid this scenario as they are not subject to this strategy of whites. They target private consumers in various countries around the world. To reach them is not only by chocolate production to the taste of different markets but by marketing campaigns that stimulate white consumers around the world and cut into the market share of the big six in the market that dominate Mafia-style stories. For 60 years CPC Ltd, a ian State Owned Enterprise SOE has not sold chocolate products to the white man. Marketing campaigns in Europe and other countries of CPC Ltd are widely never heard of. Some critics anticipate CPC Ltd was set up as a Money Laundering Project as they otherwise find no answer as to why this company has never exported any chocolate products to the white man. The white man runs international World Cocoa Sculpture Campionships, and Cocoa Festivals and operates Chocolate Museums while has not tapped into this market to attract more tourists and make ians proud of their national treasure. Modern technology ensures chocolate does not melt during and after production. Foreign chocolate made of ian cocoa can be found in various places in . More can and needs to be done in and for this sector to make it vibrant and attractive for more ians to work in and for.

The details of the new initiative of another 200.000 hectares of cocoa farming have not been made public. In light of the above facts critical observers anticipate and hope this move is part of a new holistic concept to overhaul the entire ian cocoa industry and will not end up as a dead white elephant. ians deserve the best from their leaders.