Cocoa Farmers Are Weeping Under Akufo-Addo's NPP

Member of Parliament [MP] for Bia East Constituency in the Western Region, Richard Acheampong has chided the Akufo-Addo government over what he describes as the “wicked” manner it is treating cocoa farmers.

The law-maker believes the current government is acting rather cold by halting the supply of free fertilizers to cocoa farmers.

“I feel very sad for our cocoa farmers. We had good plans and started implementing good policies for the cocoa sector but Akufo-Addo deceived Ghanaians and came to power and has failed to improve on the working conditions of cocoa farmers,” Richard Acheampong told Lawyer Ohene Gyan on ‘Pae Mu Ka’ on Accra-based Kingdom FM 107.7

According to him, the Akufo-Addo government has not treated cocoa farmers in the Western Region and Western North Region fairly by failing to increase cocoa prices which will boost the standard of living for cocoa farmers.

Richard Acheampong stressed that NDC under President Mahama introduced the free fertilization of cocoa farms policy in 2013/2014, and repeated the same in 2015 and 2016 to boost cocoa production but was canceled by the current government upon assuming office in 2017 linking it to the major decline in cocoa production.

He said he feels sorry and sad over the plight of cocoa farmers under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government.

---KingdomfmOnline