Some aggrieved cocoa farmers at Swedru-Akwapim in the Assin Fosu Municipality of the central region, have given the Produce Buying Company two weeks ultimatum to facilitate the immediate payment of their cocoa beans it purchased some months now or face their wrath.
According to the farmers, they don’t understand the delays in the payment process, as the PBC purchasing clerks kept telling them that the government had not released the money.
Solomon Nketia, Samson Dogbedo and other aggrieved farmers in the area, expressed their disappointment in the government for failing to pay the farmers after buying their produce.
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They further expressed discomfort that successive governments had failed to recognise the contributions of farmers towards nation building, hence the need for the government to pay their monies and bonuses.
“Farming is what we do to fend for our families and if the government buy our produce and fails to pay us, what do they expect us and our families to depend on”, they retorted.
When contacted, Francis Martey, a Purchasing Clerk of the PBC in the area said, he had officially communicated the payment issue to his office, but nothing fruitful had since been done.
He entreated the farmers to be patient, assuring that the government would pay them as soon as possible.