{"id":476093,"date":"2026-02-12T23:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476093\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:36:09","slug":"weve-never-seen-this-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476093\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;ve never seen this before&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/regional\/We-ve-never-seen-this-before-Cocoa-farmers-shocked-over-price-reduction-2021489?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/64248711.295.jpg\" alt=\"Some cocoa farmers at work\" title=\"Some cocoa farmers at work\" width=\"295\" height=\"178\" \/> <\/a>Some cocoa farmers at work<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Some cocoa farmers in Ghana are expressing shock and disappointment over the government&#8217;s decision to slash the price of cocoa beans.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, this is the first time a government has reduced the price of cocoa, contradicting numerous promises to increase it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to OTEC News, farmers said they are highly disappointed in the government&#8217;s drastic price reduction.<\/p>\n<p>The government has reduced the producer price of cocoa to GH\u00a241,392 per tonne and GH\u00a22,587 per bag for the remainder of the 2025\/2026 crop season, citing a sharp fall in global market prices and mounting liquidity pressures within the sector.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the decision at a press conference in Accra on Thursday, February 12, 2026, Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson said the adjustment was necessary to reflect current international price realities while protecting farmers&#8217; incomes as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers from Western North, Bono, Ahafo, and Ashanti Regions said the reduction has come as a surprise, noting that the government pledged to maintain the existing farm gate price, not reduce it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some cocoa farmers at work Some cocoa farmers in Ghana are expressing shock and disappointment over the government&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-476093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}