Fake Insecticides Floors Ghanaian Markets Destroying Our Cocoa Beans And Farmlands 2011 National Best Farmer Blows Alarm
2011 National Best Farmer, Mr. Agboh Ignatius, has raised an alarm bell over the abundance of fake insecticide or pesticides to chemicals that have currently flooded the Ghanaian markets on the blind side of agrochemicals regulatory state institutions.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
The 2011 National Best Farmer, Mr. Agboh Ignatius, has raised an alarm bell over the abundance of the fake insecticides or pesticides chemicals that have currently flooded the Ghanaian markets on the blind side of agrochemicals regulatory state institutions.
According to him, the innocent cocoa farms who went to buy the fake insecticides or pesticides chemicals in the markets and used them to spray their cocoa farms completely ended up destroying their farms and cocoa beans which situation has landed them in big trouble.
"I am making it clear for everyone in this country to now that we are now suffering as the farmers in this country because some of the businessmen and women have secretly mixed up some fake agrochemicals and the moment we went to buy the chemicals and used them to spray our farms, we completely lost our cocoa and cocoa farmlands by way of making the land unfertile."
Mr. Ignatius who raised an alarm over this pressing issue was speaking in an interview with Soireeneews.com on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, to outline the current challenges facing the farmers, particularly the farmers in cocoa-growing communities in the country.
The worried 2011 national best farmer added that some of the chemicals in the markets are not good for farming, hence the government to impress upon the researchers should wake up and do research so as for farmers to get the good products for their farming activities.
"We want the government to do so so that the researcher's team to prescribe the good chemicals for us to use to spray our farms to safeguard their cocoa farms from the destruction of using fake and dangerous chemicals," the farmer appealed.
He complained bitterly that "if you grow any cash crop on that particular land it would not germinate properly."
Aside from these challenges, Mr. Ignatius also lamented over the current high cost of the agrochemical products, which situation according to him, was adversely affecting farming activities in the country.
According to him, the situation is so pervasive to the extent that if the central government don't do anything now, there will be a food shortage in the country
Today that l am speaking to you, we the farmers in this country don't have any irrigation purpose system to grow our farms during the dry season, so we are lacking this system too," he further lamented.
'If the government should not intervene to immediately ensure to making the prices of the agrochemicals come down, then they cannot grow the foodstuffs abundantly to supplement the government efforts to increase the growth of foodstuff abundantly in the country," he noted.
