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Cashew farmers appeal for marketing
company
Nkoranza (B/A), Nov. 19, Ghanadot/GNA- Nana Kwadwo Baafour
Osei, a leading cashew farmer in the Nkoranza district, has
urged the government to establish a marketing company to
enable the crop to have a stable price.
He expressed his concern about how private businesses and
companies determine prices for the farmers every crop
season.
Nana Osei was briefing the Ghana News Agency on the
activities of the cashew farmers and the challenges facing
them.
He said in 1983 when a bushfire destroyed the forests and
swept away large tracts of cocoa farms, a number of people
entered into cashew production because the crop grows well
in the grassland.
The cocoa farmers who veered into cashew cultivation have
improved their living conditions, he added.
Nana Osei said the absence of a state agency to deal
directly with them was a major challenge, especially during
the harvesting of the crop.
He commended the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)
for supporting the farmers, which he said, had encouraged
most of the farmers to continue with the cashew production.
Nana Osei appealed to the government to extend incentives
such as scholarship packages and the free mass spraying
exercise given to cocoa farmers to the cashew industry.
He reminded the farmers of the impending harmattan season
and the probability of bushfires and advised them to prepare
fire belts around their farms.
GNA
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