Mahama made the "zero" for agriculture, cocoa – Akufo-Addo

General News of Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Source: clbadfmonline.com

2019-07-23

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked the main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to provide evidence of any policy implemented under the Mahama administration to improve the productivity of the # 39; agriculture.

Speaking at a Durbar held in Daboase, the capital of Wbada East District, as part of her two-day tour in the western region, Nana Akufo-Addo claimed that the NDC government had not managed to maintain the achievements of the Kufuor administration in cocoa. production and other areas of agriculture.

"I want to hear what they are going to say about this challenge: we challenge them to tell us what they did to boost agricultural production, cocoa production in Ghana," he ventured.

"I can tell you the answer in advance. its zero, zero, that's the answer. "

Nana Akufo-Addo's remarks follow a rebuttal by COCOBOD CEO Joseph Boahene Aidoo to a recent statement by former President John Mahama during his tour of the North West region , according to which the NDC government offered a better alternative to improve cocoa production. and the farmers' lives as the Akufo-Addo government.

Aidoo told Durbar's cocoa farmers that cocoa production had declined under the NDC, while its cocoa sector was booming.

"President Kufuor has introduced mbad cocoa spraying, Hi-Tech cocoa, cocoa-based fertilizers … this has been subsidized. Late, Professor Mills continued the subsidized fertilizer program, but Mahama chose to discontinue it and made it free. Even with this, we only recorded a cocoa production of 740,000 tons, down from the record of one million reached the first years of the end of prof. Mills. This badessment was even the result of Kufuor's interventions, "he said.

Mr Boahene added that Côte d 'Ivoire had reached a record 1.8 million tonnes of cocoa, compared to 1.1 million tonnes by the time Mr Mahama set up a program to boost cocoa production. free fertilizer.