This, they say, is evident in the cancellation of some road projects, challenges with
cocoa mass spraying exercise, and replacement of free fertilizers with subsidized ones.
«Similarly,
the cocoa mass spraying exercise was changed from the normal model of spraying by gangs to the distribution of sub-standard insecticides and fungicides to farmers to spray their own farms.
Not exact matches
There will also be the annual free
mass cocoa spraying exercise, free fertilizer, and other farm inputs all at the disposal of every farmer.
With the implementation of the adopted interventions including free fertilizer distribution,
mass cocoa spraying, free distribution of hybrid seedlings,
cocoa farms rehabilitation together with other programmes being implemented in the
cocoa industry, premium quality
cocoa beans would be supplied to the local and world markets.
«I have shared on this tour the vision of the NPP and Nana Akufo - Addo for reviving the
cocoa sector including the reintroduction of the
mass cocoa spraying [exercise] and fertiliser subsidy programmes without discrimination,» he said on Facebook.
He named the challenges militating against
cocoa production in the country as the unreliable supply of inputs to farmers as a direct result of the «free» input policy adopted by the government, new brands of chemical inputs released to
cocoa farmers in Ghana without adequate trials and research by designated institutions, low producer prices paid to farmers and the politicisation of the
mass spraying and fertiliser distribution programme.