Cocoa farmers cautioned against fake insecticide

Opanin Debrah Amanor, Chief Farmer of Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District in the Eastern Region, has called on the Police to help apprehend persons selling fake chemicals for cocoa use.

Opanin Amanor was speaking to the Ghana News Agency at Akim Oda after visiting a number of his cash crop and cocoa farms.

He said some unidentified persons were going around cocoa growing villages with a fake brand of Confidor, a cocoa insecticide, and other agro-chemicals on the market.

He added that the fake insecticide was branded with the same label as the original, but posed a threat to cocoa trees and pods when applied to them.

The District Chief Farmer noted the fake chemicals were most common in the Birim Central Municipality, Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District and East Akim District.

He said vegetables, especially garden eggs, produced from the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District had a sour taste and wondered if it was due to fake chemicals.

Opanin Amanor appealed to the general public to promptly pass on to the appropriate authorities, any information on such fake products for action to be taken.

He observed that there were several fake products on the Ghanaian market, and said it was high time Ghanaians sat up and stopped the activities of fraudsters.

Source: GNA