{"id":5705,"date":"2021-09-08T13:51:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/?p=5705"},"modified":"2021-09-08T13:51:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:51:07","slug":"when-will-ghana-add-value-to-our-raw-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/08\/when-will-ghana-add-value-to-our-raw-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"When Will Ghana Add Value To Our Raw Materials?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Until when will Ghana add more value to our raw materials produced?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can we keep boasting as the second highest cocoa producer of the world and still exporting the raw beans abroad?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have our economists forgotten that any product being sold at its raw state has no value?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cashew for instance has no fixed price here in Ghana. Are we serious as a nation at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If our early leader made mistakes by being signed woefully agreement on our mineral resources what about the our oil which was only signed not too long ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s sad we have leaders who can&#8217;t think outside the box. Are they not short sighted?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, they consider their fair share of the agreements than what the nation benefits.<br>All our timber logs were cut and exported at the least cost as if Ghanaians don&#8217;t know the uses of timber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How could we continue to export everything at its green stage and talk about job creation?<br>How many of the factories in Ghana can boast of raw materials to go into larger production?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until when will our leaders who only speak big English reason up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1008\" src=\"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-07-at-4.47.10-PM-1024x1008.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-07-at-4.47.10-PM-1024x1008.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-07-at-4.47.10-PM-300x295.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-07-at-4.47.10-PM-768x756.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-07-at-4.47.10-PM-696x685.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-07-at-4.47.10-PM-427x420.jpeg 427w, https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-07-at-4.47.10-PM.jpeg 1047w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"911\" src=\"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-07-at-4.47.09-PM-1024x911.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-07-at-4.47.09-PM-1024x911.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-07-at-4.47.09-PM-300x267.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-07-at-4.47.09-PM-768x684.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-07-at-4.47.09-PM-696x619.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-07-at-4.47.09-PM-472x420.jpeg 472w, https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-07-at-4.47.09-PM.jpeg 1064w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until when will Ghana add more value to our raw materials produced? 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