Flagbearer for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, will in the coming days provide an alternative policy for cocoa farmers.
This comes after he received a report from the minority in parliament after weeks of receiving feedback from cocoa farmers.
A post shared via social media by the 2024 campaign spokesperson, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, said Dr Mahamudu Bawumi has referred the findings of the party’s parliamentarians to the party’s committee on Agriculture & Food Security to study and propose credible policy alternatives for his consideration.
He indicated that the cocoa farmer will not be abandoned by the NPP when they get power, indicating that the alternative they will provide will bring smiles to farmers.
Read the statement below.
COCOA CRISIS – BAWUMIA PREPARES TO ANNOUNCE POLICY ALTERNATIVE
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has received a report from the minority committee led by Frank Annoh-Dompreh after their tour and engagement with our dear cocoa farmers.
In 2017, when global cocoa prices fell, the NPP stood between the market and the farmer. Prices were NOT cut. Farmers were protected.
Today, as cocoa farmers cry out again, Dr. Bawumia has received the Minority’s committee report, which contains the feedback and recommend from the cocoa farmers, and history is about to repeat itself.
Dr. Bawumia has referred the findings to the NPP Policy Committee on Agriculture & Food Security, to study and propose credible policy alternatives for his consideration.
The cocoa farmer will not be abandoned.
A policy announcement is coming. And it will bring smiles back to the faces of Ghana’s cocoa farmers.
