Ghana is the world's second -
biggest cocoa producer, behind neighbouring Ivory Coast and cocoa is Ghana's most important export crop, earning vital foreign exchange for a country.
With price volatilities on the international
cocoa market representing, perhaps, the
biggest threat to
cocoa producers, President Akufo - Addo bemoaned the fact that the fortunes of Ghanaian farmers, unfortunately, have become tied to the volatile
cocoa bean market.