Why Burkina Faso banned the export of tomatoes – Dr Otokunor explains

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  • Nene Sackitey 1 week ago

    There is nothing to explain here except the short sightedness of Africa leadership. This seasonal economic and agricultural interdependency between our peoples predates colonial partitioning. We have seen it set backs and c ...
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  • Simple 1 week ago

    Ask them to give us 3 months and then give local farmers grants plus a ready market. Set up tomato marketing board and start selling tomatoes to Burkina in 6 months from now

  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 1 week ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine........for instance 15 paracetamol at once......or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • Oobak3 1 week ago

    This is madness borne out of incompetence and stupidity. We have better soil, climate, and the demand. Why are we importing from Burkina? This is an avenue for job creation.

  • Karikakchar 1 week ago

    We should stop these N-DC/PP no even and look for pragmatic solutions. All these party footsoldiers rather than taking g money from the parry for no work done should take advantage of this situation to produce the tomatoes to ...
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  • Kwadwo 1 week ago

    For the sake of our women traders, the upkeep of their families and a healthy diet for all families in Ghana for the next few months, it has become necessary for our govt to intervene and ask the Burkina govt to delay their d ...
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  • Let's be Careful 1 week ago

    U are jux a disgrace to ur stupid mother. If not which govt came before Npp? Why didn't that stupid govt did whatever u expected from npp. Wo maame kwasia wate . Look at it age, u only typed non6 like this online for teenager ...
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  • Naa 1 week ago

    Toilet is far better than kotokoli Bawumia

  • Jimbo 1 week ago

    What a shame!!! Is it an achievement to negotiate for tomatoes from a neighboring country like Burkina? I am even ashamed. Akufo Addo wouldn't have done that shameful thing. He would have rather produce the tomatoes through h ...
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  • Osei Kwame 1 week ago

    Akufo Addo is the most useless buffoon of all time

  • KayGhana 1 week ago

    ….so why didn’t he do it in the 8 years he was in power. If he’d done that, we won’t be here now.

  • Ghanaba KK 1 week ago

    Unbelievable and did Akuffo Addo even attempt to help in the production of tomatoes , visionless NPP.

  • Osagyefo 1 week ago

    Give you 3 months plus ready market? who should give you? are you alright? Stop taking Tramol

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  • ADJOVI LAGBOR 1 week ago

    GOOFY CUTLASS TEETH= LIES ABD STUPIDITY
    Why is it that Otokunor is the only one who is responds to silly and obvious situations? Is it that he’s been marked as a fool or someone without a functioning brain? He behaves lik ...
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  • Kwasi Addai 1 week ago

    All wise Ghanaians should ask Bawumia where the Pwalugu dam is. He bragged that the dam had been completed and would help farmers to grow tomatoes all the year round. At least he should show Ghanaians the company that receive ...
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  • The Truth 1 week ago

    We should seriously engage Burkina Faso now before it's too late

  • Alokoto 1 week ago

    Burkina Faso will never succumb to what we are thinking in Ghana. It is a shame to beg a Sahelian country like Burkina Faso for common tomatoes. Akuffo Addo and his Bawumia government will forever be remembered for stealing t ...
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  • Skriller 1 week ago

    Gh politicians kwasiafuo, kwasiafuo mmboaa.. nitwits, animals without brains .. what is it to engage Burkina Faso about ... Kwame Nkrumah established a tomato factory at the north what happened to it .. kwasiafuo... Instead t ...
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  • Business 1 week ago

    You are 100% right to be angry. What has become the Navrongo Tomatoes advert by our Makoala tomatoe sellers. The biggest man made dam is the TONO Irigation Dam. The objective was production of tomatoes, rice etc. Even the Bur ...
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  • Kooko shew 1 week ago

    Brother they are more than kwasesfuo koraa they can't even analys episode they have very short memory and sight, Ibrahim troar told Ghana govt to warn Ghanaians tomatoes traders who buy tomatoes from Burkina Faso, few month ...
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  • OZYMANDIAS 1 week ago

    Fire-eating mouth and teeth, advise your President to focus on irrigation projects to enhance the production of tomatoes in the country, instead of focusing on telling lies to the nation.

  • If Burkina is having enough tomatoes upon all sun 1 week ago

    Then our leaders must be down their heads in shame ,if upon all free giving fertile lands and we can't produce enough tomatoes for our lives

  • Kweku 1 week ago

    Most contracts is been given to NPP companies ,And soon I will publish these companies, this 2 parties are criminals ,we will get them soon

  • Stubborn Academy 1 week ago

    Did our Government know about this decision earlier or BF just woke up and announced the ban?

  • Nurse @ Ridge Hospital 1 week ago

    Massa I see tomatoes everyday in Ghana. Pass Mokorla road whether you will not see heaps of tomatoes. Watery and so what? If you don't like the Ghana tomatoes then throw it away and go to Titao. To chew their fibre. Nonsens ...
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  • Kwame Peter 1 week ago

    Somebody call Okudzato Ablakwa for me,I have been commenting on Ghanaweb for years that after turning the turbines at Kpong the Volta River fresh water flows freely from North Tongu through Central Tongu to South Tongu into t ...
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  • Fulani 1 week ago

    That is you not me. Who don't know of a certain idiot called Kwame Peter. He is the one talking. His usual nasuegbeh talk. No sense. Please don't respect this fool

  • Abi 1 week ago

    Hahaha. Nkrumah, the visionary without peer, set up Nsawam Cannery about 60 years ago. What did the Danquah -Busia do? Halted operation. What did NDC do? Steal it for the Rawlingses.

    Shame, shame, shame, Ghana. Don’t cr ...
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  • Jaf 1 week ago

    The upper east and upper west regions have the same climate like southern part of Burkina Faso.Why Ghana imports tomatoes from Burkina?

  • Test2 1 week ago

    OOOO GHANA
    WHAT A DISGRACE
    COMMON ROTTEN TOMATOES YOU CANT GROW IT TO FEED YOUR OWN PEOPLE WITH YOUR FERTILE LAND RAINS AND SUNSHINE THEN WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO CELLPHONE COMPUTER CAR ETC ?
    USELESS COUNTRY FULL OF TALKATIV ...
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  • Hamiba 1 week ago

    Spare us those cock and bull stories

  • Geoffrey 1 week ago

    It completely needless for government of Ghana negotiating with, neighbouring Burkina Faso to minimise ban on tomato import to Ghana.
    We have fertile soil here in Ghana to plant more tomatoes. All we need is system structure ...
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  • Ayamga 1 week ago

    You have been in government for one year and because of your stupidity, you have no plan whatsoever to grow our own tomato.vYour ineptitude and stupidity would mistakenly make that idiot bawumia president. The economy is at a ...
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  • Esa 1 week ago

    Stupid African Ghanaian leaders. We can make use of our fertile land?

  • John 1 week ago

    What do you mean ayamga

  • Ayamga 1 week ago

    How come dr randy abbey and dr otukunor are two useless individuals

  • Esi 1 week ago

    This ayamga guy

  • Yabi Yabi 1 week ago

    We should be asking Dr. Bawumia about where all the monies the NPP majority government of Akufo-Addo / Dr. Bawumia government spent on 1D1D, 1D1F and $12 million paid for a project that never happened in the north went.

    Le ...
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  • No Mercy 1 week ago

    John Mahama is Stealing the States Money to his Brother..

  • Mensah 1 week ago

    Shame on us. Between ghana and our neighbours to the north, who should be importing tomatoes from who? Persistent sterling by Ghanaians at every level has brought us this far. Government after Government after government. We ...
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  • Lazy Government 1 week ago

    Lazy farmers and government of Ghana .

  • Stop selling tomatoes to Ghana 1 week ago

    Crazy mad Ghanaians. You like cheap side
    Good job Ibrahim.

  • Koti 1 week ago

    Why are our politicians quick in telling lies? What can we tell the Burkina Faso government, to stop the ban so their factories run without tomatoes? Their leaders are using their brains; unlike our leaders. They are telling ...
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  • Traore is more sensible than any GH president apart from Nkrumah 1 week ago

    Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso is more sensible than any GH president apart from Nkrumah.
    Ghanaian politicians are only interested in their stomach

  • Akuffo Ado is wiser than any president Ghana has ever had 1 week ago

    Akuffo Ado is the wisest. Troare is not wise, he is insecure.

  • KKK 1 week ago

    You the kind of people managing affairs of Ghana? Lack of innovation, foresight and ingenuity in the people whom should know better. Instead of coming out with new ideas as to how not to rely on importation of tomatoes, you a ...
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  • Major 1 1 week ago

    What support does our local producers need? Good seed, fertilizer, water and small financial support till harvest time. Three months to four months produce is ready. We have no excuse to import onion, and tomato. Let's start, ...
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  • OZYMANDIAS 1 week ago

    Was it not your (P) NDC that destroyed the Pwalugu Tomato Factory that was built by Osagyefo Dr Nkrumah? Stop your nonsense and get down to repair everything that your party has destroyed in the past.

  • Alhajj Kanawu. 1 week ago

    OZYMANDIAS, The NDC Is Nothing But The Nation Destroyers Committee. John Jeremiya Rawlings And His Evil NDC Party Are The Most Evil Group Ghana Has Ever Produce. Both Osagyifo Dr. Kwame NKRUMAH And Ex - Head Of State General ...
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  • Soothsayer 1 week ago

    The man with cutlasses as teeth

  • Jimbo 1 week ago

    We should allow Burkina Faso to build their economy. They want to add value to their tomatoes for export. If we don't want their processed tomato, we have land we should cultivate for tomatoes. We are not supposed to add our ...
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  • Jimbo 1 week ago

    All we know in Ghana is to parade political commentators like Kwasi Pratt, Asane Tanor, and others on radio and TV to exhibit their political hatred and propaganda prowess and line their pockets with nokofioo from the NDC gov ...
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  • Anna 1 week ago

    It's not all true
    The tomatoes from burkina last longer while that of the light skin local ones do not. The president is now distributing the same burkina species to farmers now
    Ghana sometimes is overflowm with tomatoe ...
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  • Agbelimor Paris 1 week ago

    Stop the Burkina Faso people from using our ports, they are not important to us anymore.We only know Thomas Sankara,not these bandits

  • Koppong 1 week ago

    Stop the talk and start growing tomatoes
    Lazy appointees

  • Diza 1 week ago

    Ask them to give us 3 months and then give local farmers grants plus a ready market. Set up tomato marketing board and start selling tomatoes to Burkina in 6 months from now

  • Diza 1 week ago

    Ask them to give us 3 months and then give local farmers grants plus a ready market. Set up tomato marketing board and start selling tomatoes to Burkina in 6 months from now

  • Capt Adabuga 1 week ago

    Aren't you ashamed of yourselves as a government importing crops from impoverished BF

  • Abrewapunyagna 1 week ago

    Square peg in a round hole!!!! You don’t deserve to be occupying the post you have but for politics!! Instead of you strategizing to have our tomato farmers prepare for the upcoming season and produce to satisfy our local d ...
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  • Osagyefo 1 week ago

    Ordinary tomatoes and we are importing 70%, masa this one is too much

  • John 1 week ago

    How long should it take Ghana to overtake Burkina in tomato production? Why are we still importing rice and frozen chicken heavily into our country? Are we serious?

  • Charles 1 week ago

    Shame ,shame ,shame on Ghana. We are not serious people.

  • agyeman 1 week ago

    HOW CAN WE BRO WHEN ALL THE PRESIDENT KNOWS IS TO BUY AEROPLANES AND V8s FOR NON-STARTERS TO RIDE AT COST TO GHANA. JUST NEXT DOOR PEOPLE ON DRY LANDS ARE PRODUCING FRESH FOOD FOR US TO EAT. SHAMELESS MAHAMA.

  • Tosh 1 week ago

    One of the greatest achievement of this government, would be to make us self reliant in tomatoes, onions, and poultry in the next two years. It has been done with eggs, and it can be done with the others. It needs a clear pla ...
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  • Ghanaba KK 1 week ago

    Otukonnor please stop talking and up your game. ACTION NOW ACTION NOW ACTION NOW.

  • Augustina Quayson President 1 week ago

    Please apart from the Pwalugu Tomato factory, Nkrumah also established the Wenchi Tomato factory at Wenchi in the Brong Ahafo Region.

  • Citizen not spectator 1 week ago

    Total shame on a country like Ghana. Go to Cote d'ivoire and see plantation, we are really lazy in this country. food too we can't plant!!!!

  • Kweku 1 week ago

    Why can't Ghana produce tomatoes for its traders unless they go to Burkina Faso to buy tomatoes? Ghananian politicians like talking and explaining issues instead of solving and producing results

  • K Tsin 1 week ago

    The soil and climate in Ghana can support tomato crops far better than Burkina. We are only adopting a lazy man's appy, just like the railway thing.

  • Concerned- Tema 1 week ago

    THIS IS THE BIGEST SHAME OF THE COUNTRY GHANA. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO WASTE MONEY TO TRAVEL TO WUOAGA TO BEG FOR TOMATOES? A BIG BIG SHAME INDEED.

  • Gabriel Adukpo of SkyFarmGH 1 week ago

    If you decide to negotiate, we can't hold you back, even though negotiation is unnecessary. Use the two-week window to plan something strategically, and tell Ghanaians. How can we import 75 percent of tomato needs in the dry ...
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