It would be better for farmers in Ghana and Ivory Coast to grow cops that will feed their countries and the rest of Africa. Maize, cassava, sweet potatoes and other root crops should be produced in mass quantities. These crops can be processed into flour as is already done in many countries. Planting cocoa for the Europeans does not make economic sense. They get top dollar for the processed products while the farmers suffer with low prices. Let the Europeans reduce their profit margins if they want to continue doing business with African farmers. The Caribbean has excellent chocolate makers and it is time for African farmers to join hands with their brothers and sisters in the diaspora for a better life for all concerned.
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It is not possible to help Cocoa farmers when the government sets prices and completely occupies the entire industry. The European manufacturers invested decades and decades into developing thousands of confectionary brands that include chocolate so it is very idealistic and wrong to believe they can be replaced by “making chocolate in ghana”. The government needs to liberate the market and stop setting inelastic prices. Right now you need to prove you Can handle 10,000tons of Cocoa before you get an export livvenece from the government, This is pathetic and doesn’t help anyone
The problem is you will get sanctioned lol and AU will allow it.. instead of supporting no matter what... the chocolates you produce should be exported outside Africa because we need a healthy population in the continent. Use that money to build the continent and mass produce healthy African foods for us..
@@cazsdee3760 problem is not AU problem is your government please realize no one outside will save you have to save yourself that is a call to action not an insult what are graduate engineers in Ghana university doing ? are there research on howto create your own chocolate and market it to the rest of Africa ???? again no one will save you complaining will not help you otherwise 100yrs from now you will still be crying fight and win you can Ghana was the first country to be independent and its a travesty that its not the most developed and its sin that nobody eats chocolates from Ghana and that there is no chocolate billionaire in Ghana. let farmers sell at the price they can and they will win price controls never bring prosperity
Fo REAL! Invest in producing your own Chocolate, packaging and sales. The world is changing. Putin is removing the ANGLO white hegemony of America and Europe. Start building your own companies now, before the reset starts.
My father used to say..."In the abundance of water, the FOOL is always thirsty " Now I say... In the abundance of Natural resources, GHANA is still struggling!!! In Ghana we are blessed with all natural resources u can think of. Name them, from Gold to cocoa to iron to timber to bauxite to Diamonds to manganese to agricultural produce and oil. Ghana has it all yet look at us. God has done His part for us. Its about time we do our part as well. We can't let God's blessings go to waste. We can't continue to be slaves to the West by letting them determine prices for us cos we don't do for them. We can't keep exporting raw materials without adding value to them and import back what we exported after they have added value. Its time for us to wake up! It's about time we start thinking ahead and stop thinking about today. We need visionaries not today thinkers! All hope is not lost. Ghana can still make it out. If we are determined, then we Can!
Hi Wodemaya, Wonderful video. Keep it up. I am Electrical Power Systems Engineer based in Europe but originally from Ghana. I can assure you that these cocoa can be used for many things. One of them is to generate electrical power. You are welcome to contact me for more details.
-The flesh from inside the pod is sweet enough to make alcohol from, the South American tribes used the pulp to make a fermented drink. separating the pulp from the bean before dying may remove flavour but you can dry the beans using small amounts of the pulp slurry to give the flavour the bean would normally have after drying. -The husk/pod itself can be mixed with other materials to produce a compost that is more beneficial than using just the husk, processing a compost made of many different plant materials and then adding micro-organisms that benefit the ground and the tree. -"Vertical Intergration" is a good way to own the profits of your work, producing as many different parts of products and making more than a single product from a single resource is always going to be useful. Alcohol and Compost are both easy to produce and are already part of the processes so it could be a good idea to take what already exists and make it more rather than every cocoa farmer building their own chocolate factory, although there definitely need to be more places to process the cocoa.
One Chinese friend helped you start your RU-vid journey. You now have 2 million friends ($1 each) who can help you invest into processing the cocoa (which you will buy from all the struggling farmers when you start your brand - wode maya chocolate) if I saw that name At any African airport, I would stop buying Cadbury chocolate. You have the influence to spark that fire!!!
Leaders are being bought again unfortunately according to some strong source.. Mozambique signing deals with EU, popular presidents I thought yes finally are apparently sell outs according to sources.. I feel this battle is too much 😪 you can't change or only progress east, south, west, north separately.. it has to be one at the same time.. they always find the weakest link... I like what the bro said about industry for cocoa... I wish him all the best
Leaders are people with Vision, The last Leader in Africa was killed by the west 2 years ago. All so called African Presidents are there to protect the Western interests or agendas, they are there to serve their masters and not the people,
You are a real village man, now I know. Thank you for refreshing my memory of growing up as boy spending time in the Forrest. Harvesting Cocoa beans, coconut, sweet potato and cassava were my favorite things to do.
To help the coco farmers. Africans utubers need to send this Vedio to their respective Governments, Politicians and the AU all across the motherland. Send this Vedio and others Vedios to those in Charge of Exporting the Africans countries lives. Send them a massage
They are not all the poorest but guess what you see those honest hardworking people soon there will be be a shift the wealth of the wicked will soon turn over to those who really deserve it and Wode Maya is doing just that he is a God sent hold my people better days are
It's deliberate. I'm pretty sure Africa does not have cash app. Well the dirt that they were digging up for the minerals is Clay dirt there's a different types of soils not all soils are the same luckily for them play Dirt is easily cleaned the same systems that people would use to clean up oil spills and the ocean would work there to where the people dug up to illegally mine. Well I hope things change for the better soon.
It's unfair for the government to be making more money from the Cocoa than the farmers themselves. Let the farmers form an association that will buy and sell the cocoa without the government.
I can relate to this. You spend so much resources on cocoa farm and receive next to nothing in returns. Some of us still keep the farms just to support the local folks... There's the temptation of selling the farms to illegal miners for a fortune but you think about the impact of their activities on the environment and you decide against that. Our local farmers deserve better. Thanks Legend Wode Maya for sharing the plight of cocoa farmers with the world.
I suggest you people ask your local politicians and vote for a government that allows farmers to sell directly to the market at right prices not to government your problem is your government at this price controls create poverty. There is a reason why a farmer in South Africa is millionaire why because he is allowed to sell at the highest prices while African governments put controls that is why market economies always prosper over too regulated markets
@@vanhuvanhuvese2738 Farmers in South Africa are beneficiaries of Apartheid that made sure that Europeans benefited to the max . This has remained so to this day . The question is why can't others copy this system of support to local industries ??? The way this world operates favours Caucasians because they designed it ,, look at this buyer's of commodities determine the prices not the producer : gold, diamonds, copper Oil, name it all are determined by buyers
Please Maya what I have been taught in Germany is the rotten or spoiling cocoa known as abinchi is use for the most expensive shower soaps/shampoos and creams. So there's nothing waste about cocoa
Imagine if someone started this in Ghana. Africans we are like babies who cry for help until our eyes dry up. I pray that one day it will rain on us heavily so that we turn our continent around.
Thank you Wode Maya. My father was a cocoa and coffee farmer in HAITI, same struggle for the farmers in Haiti. You remind me of the old days when I used to help my father in the seasons of harvest. I hope this video will increase awareness and help find solutions. Keep up the good work
Award winning documentary Wode Maya been watching you since China and you are evolving into an international self made media guru and journalist amazing
This video has all the ingredients it deserves, super! I was sad at some point and some point, thrilled !! This remains my favorite video from Wode Maya for now!!! 👍🏿
Cocoa bean shells can be used to make biomass briquettes that can be used to generate your own CHP electricity or as cooking fuel. This could generate more income to the farmers and helps fighting deforestation.
Have remembered in geography We studied Cocoa growing in Ghana, the problems we studied those pipo used to face long tym ago are the same problems addressed in this video,
So glad you are touching on this topic. It not just coco. Coco is a 12 billion dollar industry but Africa get hardly any of that money. Cobalt, copper, diamonds, oil and a host of other minerals as well are billion dollar industries that comes form Africa but they get none of the wealth from it. This needs to change!
Whites have looted Africa for many years without challenge from cape to cairo because Africans are currently too weak to put up a serious challenge . 80% of presidents on the continents are chosen by Whites (EU).
Hmm... Maya , watching this as a Ghanaian i am very sad for the future generation, this galamsay is seriously destroying the land God gave us ,no good water to drink,no job and our lands are being destroy,it serious where are we going as a country, when you come to Kumasi most of the story buildings were built by our great grandfather with cocoa money, so what happened to this generation .
Problem I see here as someone who has seen it in many countries is that your government is doing price controls farmers must sell their product directly to market. in every country a farmer is a middle class to millionaire only on countries where there are price controls do you have poor farmers so the devil here is your government practicing bad economics sadly those type are common in most African countries they are chiefs who create useless departments to manage the process of exporting the product so that they can take the the profits from the farmer This poverty is manufactured
Stop being sad and start demanding results from your Environmental protection agency. If you don't hold the agencies responsible accountable, then nothing will change.
Thanks for putting DR Congo and Whole Africa on the map. Please release those DRC vlogs no matter the corruption and dumbnes of officials. People need to see how f.up DRC is, it will help improve the nation.
See how you can create a kind of fertilizer using the empty cocoa shell. Compost it or burnit to make carbon and add it to the soil. It is good fertilizer.
Individuals are not allowed to buy the cocoa beans.. it's solely bought by the government. Even if you own the farms you have to sell the beans to the government agencies. And they determine the price. No wonder Europeans also determine how much they pay to the government.
Sir: The Coco pod shells when they are dry can be grounded up into a powder. Mixed with other stuff that's organtic it can be turned into compost. Then you can used the compost as fertilizer. You can used a cheap in expensive grinder for the shells. Hope this little info helps. Hey when I come to Ghana and set up my company I will invite you for a site down about business their. Take care.
Most Africa develop Hotel and nightclub no one go out do develop farmers its very sad and blaming government THANK YOU WODY MAYA show Africa farmers to open our mind 👍👍👍👍🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷
Our priorities are misplaced. It's really sad. We don't think of generations. But also the govt has frustrated the people so much they have resorted to just having fun.
Just discussing this last week Cocoa Farmers spend a lot of time and energy than what they are getting and the saddest thing is some students are getting cocoa scholarship in the cities whilst the farmers are strangling to pay their kids School fees hmm Africa we need to change
two ideas: 1) some people take dried hulls like those and sell it as compost and/or an alternative to pebbles/stones that people use in landscaping. Perhaps the cocoa husk could be marketed that way. 2) A rancher in USA made a fortune when he had the idea to take cow dung, shape it as pots, dry it and sell it as a biodegradable/self-fertilizing pot for plants. Its an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic landscape pots that you find at nurseries and garden centers.
a tiny piece of chocolate here in Kenya cost way above 1.5 Us dollars and it saddens me knowing our brothers only get less that 5% after doing 98% of the work required.....look for Mwale and Dangote and let them provide an alternative make within Africa
Hard reality. Even I can't wrap my head around the economics as much as I understand. Only our land and climate grow the product. Without us, there is no cocoa. African leaders have always been asleep all these decades. I never get it.
the issue is not processing although that would be good the issue si the government forces famers to sell to them not to the market directly so this is manufactured poverty
@@WODEMAYA You have the power my Tadi bro don't let the government exploit your family too. Lots of people in the comment section giving you ideas. Your family is sitting on millions of dollars. You network with the right organisation, and set a good example
The cocoa shells can be used back in the soil as manure. They can dry it and grind it into powder and use it for potting soil for plants. The shell has lots of nutrients that is good for the soil.
I watched this content last night and it's very sad n hurting. You cannot let the cocoa farmers do all the hard work n pay them peanuts Seriously???? The government should pay them from the beginning of their harvest. This farmers work hard n need to see the harvest of their seeds. Why let other countries denifit???? I pray your President watches this video n am definitely sharing. May the Lord go before all farmers n experience God's divine breakthrough. Maya has spoken let's support him. God bless you. Greetings from Nairobi.
When will Africans learn that the world does not care? Africans have been given religion with the promise that they will have all the milk and honey they desire in the afterlife. If Africans are not content with that, then dem mus exercise dem own ingenuity and get their own milk and honey in this life as other races are doing. Marcus Garvey words! Is it by force that the farmers are growing cocoa?
JADAM and KNF Natural farming techniques would put the power back into the farmer's hand and you will have more bountiful production of cocoa. It would cut all costs for the farmers almost completely.
@Wode Maya You can use all that raw Materials to make a lot of things. I visited the Cocoa board in Tafo, a couple of years back and actually made a video. They make use of all the raw materials from Cocoa making Show Polish, Whiskey, Soap, Cocoa butter, DIsh Washing soap etc with them. I can send you the video. So maybe you can make a trip to the Cocoa Institute in Tafo and see what they do there. They also make Chocolate that is being exported because I have seen it at stores here in the US.
@@sunnyjohnson8533 I really did not edit the video but here is one I did a couple of years back ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h1Ay8abhuic.html I also did one 2 Decembers ago when i went back for the Queen Mother's burial. I will try and upload that as well.
True that most of our countries should wake up and promote farmers. After staying abroad, I appreciate Africa, we are rich but don't know how to utilize our wealth. Weldon Maya more, your videos are a big inspiration for us to go back and develop Africa. The narrative must change.
I really hope that we can bring the minds and souls of the black entrepreneurs who can help the farmers by buying directly from them. if black entrepreneurs bought from these Farmers they would no longer be poor they would be rich and we could help end the crisis.
My heart goes out to those poor coco farmers. We grow coco in my community in Jamaica. We sell some, and process some to make hot drink, which is delicious. But sad to say we let a lot of our coco go to waste; while we buy the processed one that comes from overseas. I heard that coco is called a miracle food because of its numerous health benefits. I heard that the white meat on the seed is good for diabetes, and the seeds has great medicinal values. We need to do more medicinal research on this coco. I am sure the husk has some industrial value, possible oil for energy. Get our scientific minds to figure out something. God is the greatest teacher! He gives mankind wisdom and knowledge to invent and create... I don't care what the world want to say about Jesus. I know Him for myself. He taught me many things. I love Jesus! I love your farm; it's beautiful. You should seriously think of building a retreat on your farm. Many people would visit, and you could create jobs and use the money to help the farmers.
Thank you Wode Maya for telling the struggles of cocoa farmers in Ghana. I recently visited some cocoa farmers in their farms in the eastern region and I really felt for them after I heard all that they go through but earn less. Can you imagine they can’t even process their own cocoa that they produce 😞
Is the government forcing farmers to plant cocoa? Why can't the farmers act in their own interests and engage in more profitable farming business? How can a farmer get into growing cocoa without first checking the profitability of that business then secondly continue in that business for 15 years despite having nothing to show even after the first 5 years? At what point do you ask the farmer to stop and consider more profitable agri-businesses? Is like standing in the ants trail and then complaining that you are being bitten to death by the ants? Do we ask the government to do more to help the farmer with the ants or do we ask the farmer to step away from the ant trail? Where is the evidence that farmers are being forced to engage in unprofitable cocoa farming for 15 years?
@@pepiiv5131 You talk as if you don't know that govt controls the activities of these farmers. So in your mind, all these farmers are lying, even Wode Maya, right? I pity you from your statement.
The transformation of our agricultural production is the key to breaking out of the cycle dictated by colonization. In some regions, it is even recommended to return to productions devoted primarily to local food consumption. It is a collective duty (excluding sold politicians) to redefine agricultural value chains in Africa.
In the Caribbean islands, cocoa is used to make many products including chocolate candy. I think the price of the raw material, cocoa beans/pods, needs to increase.
Wode Maya the Western control over markets and the complacency of African leaders to exploit in a positive way their own resources perhaps because of lesser known contracts may cause a truly wealthy land owner with Cacao to seem poor. There are studies from Japan from years ago about the health benefits of Cacao. Here in New York it is being sold in health food stores at higher price$. 🙏🏾💚🌱
