{"id":359041,"date":"2017-10-05T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=359041"},"modified":"2017-10-05T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T06:00:56","slug":"1-student-1-chocolate-will-boost-cocoa-consumption-osafo-maafo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/1-student-1-chocolate-will-boost-cocoa-consumption-osafo-maafo\/","title":{"rendered":"1-student, 1-chocolate will boost cocoa consumption &#8211; Osafo Maafo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo, has defended the promise by the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to provide each student in schools across the country, with a<span style=\"color: #666699;\"> <a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/03\/nana-addo-promises-one-student-one-chocolate\/\"><strong>bar of chocolate or cocoa drink<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>each day.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Addo stated at this year\u2019s World Cocoa Day celebration in Kumasi, that such a programme will boost local consumption of cocoa products.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;7IWPc0abmagi0pZaD7eILOw09tEc7XeS&#8221;]\u201cIt is for this reason that the Ministry of Agriculture through COCOBOD, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection through the school feeding programme, and the Ministry of Education through the Ghana Education Service, are to ensure the sustained provision of cocoa beverages and chocolates to school children from primary school to secondary level\u2026[our] target is to provide every Ghanaian student with a bar of chocolate or cocoa beverage each day whilst in school\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n<p>The comments by the President have been met with mostly negative responses from Ghanaians with many on social media questioning the need for such a programme and raising doubts about its sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>However, Yaw Osafo Maafo, brushed these concerns aside, reiterating the President\u2019s belief that the policy will help increase cocoa consumption\u00a0locally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou must create a market within the population for your produce. You must make the cocoa drink available in all schools, available in the [Senior High schools] and available in the universities. Let Ghanaians develop taste for cocoa drink,\u201d he said in an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Osafo Maafo, despite the large quantities of cocoa beans produced in Ivory Coast and Ghana each year, neither country gets more than 6% of the total proceeds from exports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe value chain is worth about $100 billion. Ghana and Cote D\u2019Ivoire \u2013 just us \u2013 produce 60% of the [cocoa] bean, so we contribute 60% of the value chain, but we get less than 6 billion of the $100 billion, it\u2019s pathetic. It means most of the money goes to those who process, not those who produce the bean, so if we don\u2019t process we\u2019ll not get our fair share of the value chain\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the country had the technical expertise to process the cocoa beans that are produced, but admitted that there was a need to expand the factories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo process the bean, you must have a market for the processed goods. If you process and you are drinking the cocoa; when there\u2019s a tea break, you drink tea and coffee, it\u2019s wrong. The processing mechanism involves plants and machinery and know-how. We have some processing factories in Ghana so we need to expand them. 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