Ghana wants more of her Karaws, but it’s a hard rumor

Accra street seller looks at me, Bemused.

I’m trying to set a pretty juicy 30g bag of roasted sugar sugar, next to a highway in the capital of Ghana, about 75 cents (60p) is equivalent.

That is, of course, it’s not a lot of money for me, the visitor to the UK, but I am amazed.

The price is at least 4,000% higher than the cost of buying the same weightless bird weight from a Gheran farmer.

“It’s incredible,” I protest. However, it doesn’t understand my English or my reasoning.

The price of walnuts, after all, was printed in packages. And when I explained that he was beyond the pale it would never be easy.

Ghana is the world The third largest exporter Unnecessary walnuts, in the first place on the coast of ivory, and Cambodia in the second.

To produce crop, around 300,000 Ghanari do the least growing boxes.

Nashuru Seydou, family has a farmhouse in the northeast of the country, from 500 kilometers (800 km) from ACCRA, one of them.

The work is difficult and non-reliable supply chains and volatile wholesale prices complicate survival.

“We’re fighting. We can use the sunlight, fertile land to create more jobs,” he noted. “I would be happy if the government gets our support and helps protect our industry.”

He tells me that it gets about $ 50 for a large 100 kg sack.

“It’s amazing,” says the bright, entrepreneurial and economic commentary of the Simons, examined numbers in Accra. “Hearters and vendors buy nuts from farmers to $ 500 and sell customers (at home and abroad) with tons of $ 20,000 and $ 40,000.”

Overall, Ghana grows about 180,000 tonnes every year every year. More than 80% exported, and a shape without raw form. This generates $ 300 million at exports entries, but it means that Ghana is missing the remarkable returns you get from compassion and ready to eat.

Mildred Akotia is a person who tries to increase the number of kings that mask and burn in Ghana. He is the founder of Akwaba Fine Foods and the CEO who processes 25 tons now.

Mrs. Batty has denied suggestions like himself and others. A Western business would automatically use a Western business.

“If you go to a local bank, you will cost a 30% interest to get a loan,” complaining. “As a manufacturer, how much of your margins will you tell me, you can pay for this kind of interest? We had to trust what we get: Donor agencies Soft loans and grants.”

Due to this situation, less than 20% of Ghana’s brother is processed locally. Most are exported and exported to countries in countries like India, Thailand and Vietnam.

It is noteworthy, some of these packaged dry fruits are exported to Ghana, where they are sold in the internal roast. That is, despite the 20,000-mile sea freight travel and import costs.

It is a similar image of rice, which is exported in Asia, Ghana and sold at low prices, even though Ghana also grown the same crop.

He returned to the Ghana government in 2016 to experiment with an export ban to promote their home processing. However, the policy had to abandon the policy within a couple of weeks since farmers and traders created it.

Without unavailable loans, Ghanaan roasted enough to enter the market. So the prices of raw nuts failed and many began to use the desire of a buyer.

Recently, Cashew has been talked with more raw exports and prohibition rates in exporters that directly purchase directors directly from farms.

But all of these political interventions lost the key point, according to Mr. Simons. It is a great challenge for local producers, says, work on the basics of working in business and grow their companies.

“To make it effective in this, you need a scale,” he noted that companies must promote eating countries in the country. “You need a lot of vaults that consume nuts, not a small middle class.”

Daron AceMoglu, Turkish-American economist, is agreeable to building a strong local market for Ghana’s insurance. It was one of the last year’s winners of the Nobel Memorial Award for Economics. In fact, struggles with low income economies and were especially home businesses.

However, the first priority must improve access to international markets for processed Anxiety of Ghana.

“These companies are not working properly trained, constantly changing the fears or rules of rotten officials and is also very difficult to reach foreign markets. They need a foreign market because the home market is small, and Their government has very little ability (to encourage him). “

The Ghana government wants to improve the network of roads and railways to relieve the cost of transportation.

Mr. Simons, however, believes that Onus should be in Ghana’s business, to make the foundations, the basics of improving brands and marketing. However, he says that many people of business companies in the country are leaving Ghana because of better opportunities paid abroad, because they are so banned by the Ghana red tape and chronicle.

“There is a massive brain drain,” he said. “The economic development of Africa has been slow, because we can easily focus on supply, but it is requested by real beauty, and creating a consumer class for fans to eat boxes, and you do not create a transformation of the entrepreneurial class.”

The same argument applies to other ghana’s larger exports, like gold and chocolate, which does not have many values ​​within Ghana before exporting west.

Mildred Baldia tends to be a trend that can be one of those entrepreneurs who can collect trends. Now he wants to build his own logistics arm to process direct money from the farm door.

“I have many calls from the US, Canada and America. Today we cannot meet demand.

“The market is ready, both local and internationally. My brand is good, my marketing is good. My dream is to face Ghanaese food.”