Business News of Wednesday, 30 December 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comHere are the business fails of 2020Ken Ofori-Atta, Finance MinisterJust like starting a business is hard, maintaining, and ensuring due diligence can be quite tough when certain regularities are not strategically put in place. But for the intervention of government, the Company was scheduled to shut down on January 31, 2020. Cocoa farmers decry low pricesDespite cocoa being one of the major income-generating commodities for Ghana’s economy, farmers do not seem to have hope in the sustainability of the cash crop. According to cocoa farmers in an interview with AfricaNews, returns over the years have been meagre, adding that they [farmers] are struggling to break free from poverty. We want the government to just increase everything for us because we spend time, our energy mostly on the side of the cocoa business, but after all, we get nothing,” said Bensil Aryetey, a farmer.

Source: GhanaWeb December 30, 2020 09:00 UTC