{"id":157237,"date":"2015-10-05T08:08:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T08:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=157237"},"modified":"2015-10-04T20:25:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T20:25:21","slug":"govt-dismisses-minority-concerns-cocoa-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/govt-dismisses-minority-concerns-cocoa-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt dismisses minority concerns on cocoa pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ministry of Finance has dismissed what it describes as unjustifiable calls by the minority in Parliament for a 50 percent increase in the producer price of Cocoa.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”FSDfNRC7k460r6UnjJYNOuk7eSC1rHWq”]This comes after government sanctioned a more than 21% increase in the price<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of the cash crop from GH\u00a2350 to GH\u00a2420 per a 64 kilogram bag.<\/p>\n

According to government, the price represents about 74 percent of Free on Board Price (FOB), the highest over the years.<\/p>\n

A Deputy Minister of Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson in an interview with Citi Business News<\/strong> said the the minority’s demands are baseless.<\/p>\n

He said the \u201cmathematics behind the 50 percent increase won\u2019t add up. I don\u2019t know on which basis they are talking about because the 21.7 percent increase represent 74 percent of the net FOB price.\u201d<\/p>\n

He explained that there are additional cost that the Ghana Cococoa Board incurs \u201cincluding the fertilizer, the spraying, the administration cost and others so I don\u2019t know where they are getting the mathematics from.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been in power before, they\u2019ve run Ghana Cocoa Board before what is their record. If they continue to say that, you have to look at their record and what they used to do. They were doing 71 percent of FOB and we are doing 74 percent of FOB, what is their record.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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