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.
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
-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.
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.
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.
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!!! 👍🏿
One Chinese friend helped you start your TH-cam 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!!!
Award winning documentary Wode Maya been watching you since China and you are evolving into an international self made media guru and journalist amazing
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.
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.
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.
According to the internet those brown cacao shells can be used as fertilizer. It can be used to make husk tea. Weed killer. High in fiber so you can make packaging and other materials. Fabric dye. Animal fadder.
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
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
Thanks Wode for a really interesting video. I'd love to come to Ghana and visit you all one day. I noticed that the price of cocoa has increased 252% in the past year. Is the Ghana government now paying Cocoa farmers 3 times as much?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
i think we can think of making manure from those pods, decompose them and then applied in farms as organic manure, we can also make livestock feeds. thses are just ,y ideas that i think can be tried and tested wani isaac a south sudanese refugee in udanda
This is so sad to see all this what's going on with the Cocoa in Africa 🌍 😢. It also blew my mind about the crad in the hole under the cocoa tree. Woda Maya, you always put out great content 👏 that's why I watch your channel. May God continue to keep blessing, your wife & family on you journey in Jesus mighty name amen 🙌
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?
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!
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).
Wode I really appreciate how you're showing african to the whole world, very soon I will invite you to my town in Ogun state NIGERIA, keep it up God will reward you abundantly
@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 th-cam.com/video/h1Ay8abhuic/w-d-xo.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.
I use to eat those in the Caribbean . My mother use to make coco rolls and we make tea with it. It has lots of health benefits. Enjoy Ghana baby. Oh my you make me miss my youngest days going to the farm 😢
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.
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.
Wode Maya another great documentary. Cocoa is not just used for to make chocolate. There are more products made from cocoa. Also cocoapods can be used as natural fertilizer.
Aloha Wode Maya yr. farm is going to continue to prosper bringing awareness is important more so because a lot of the us people depend on chocolate for their own business's. much love Cacique Anacaona
Bless you bro. I need to visit your farm one day. I live in the best chocolate producing country in the world and it’s amazing what they do here with our cocoa.
Thanks my bro for the good work you are doing for our mother land. The Cocoa hulls can be use to prepare our local soap. I mean the black soap. My uncle use to do that when we were kids. It can use for washing clothes and showering. I 💕 what you doing keep it up. God bless
@@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
Here in Japan, a very popular chocolate sold in convenience stores is called Ghana. I guess the beans are brought in from Ghana and processed here into chocolate. Ghana can earn more if such processing is done in your own country. A great video Wode Maya!
that might not work....i imagine chocolate producers in Japan use the beans and process the chocolate using their own ingredients and formula..it wouldnt make sense for Japan to give Ghana its recipe for its brand of chocolate, then lets Ghana make their chocolate, then sell the already made product back to them...
@@carsonc29 and that's exactly what I said. Instead of exporting the raw beans, Ghana would earn more if they process their own chocolate before exporting it overseas
@@ExplorewithHAROLD thats not gonna work...imagine you had your own chocolate company in the UK..you have your own way of making your chocolate...so now instead of you buying the beans raw, and processing them using YOUR methods, you now have to sell your secrets to Ghana, lets them make YOUR chocolate, then sell it right back to you....that isnt something youre gonna wanna do..
@@carsonc29 I think you didn't get my point at all. I wasn't saying that those chocolate factories should sell their chocolate-making recipes to Ghana .....I was just saying that if Ghana could find a way to process most of the cocoa beans themselves they would earn more .... I think my initial comment was just plain and simple.....Japan is getting raw beans from Ghana and has earned more after adding value to it ...Much of that money would be Ghana's if they invested in factories to add more value to the raw beans....I am not saying for you people to get the English people or the Japanese to show you their way of making chocolate....invest in finding a way to process the beans...that was just my point....
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.
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.
@wodemaya in Kenya we turn the coconut shells to briquettes which is then used for cooking and people are not exposed to the carbon monoxide that’s emitted when you use charcoal. Perhaps you can look into how the Cocoa shells can be turned into briquettes as they last longer and you don’t use a huge amount for cooking. I hope this helps as it will be a game changer
if you leave the pods in a pile, they will turn to compost. compost is soil which farmers use to plant in. you can mix the compost with crab dirt which can be found by a tamarind tree, tamarind tree soil is very soft, crab digs in it, mix both the tamarind dirt with the pods dirt and you can plant anything in it. love this video by the way, love content like this...#Respects my brother🖤🖤🖤💯💯
Hey bro... compress the dried husks... press them as hard as u can together ... can they be used as heating pellets. Can they be used as fire wood. We have a product in canada .. an easy start fire log. One log to get the fire started. It is dried saw dust and other things compressed to look like a log. It burns easy... Could be a usefull idea. I did a quick google and it says cocoa husks have alot of nutrients.. maybe can be used for a supplement.. ( note: I do not know if cocoa husk is actually good. It was a google suggestion
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.
A hundred likes 👍👍👍👍👍for your comment. You are absolutely right.
Well Said!
Shut up and who told you other crops are not grown? Stop talking because u feel like talking.
@Flower7 what has this comment got to do with Cocoa?
Simple
This so reminds me of my dad's farm in Portland, and enjoyed lots of sweet cocoa pods - from tree to mouth. 🤩 One love from Jamaica 🇯🇲🇯🇲❤️🇯🇲🇯🇲.
Cocoa pods are use for:
1. Bicarbonate of soda
2. Soap
3. Cream for preventing pimples etc
Can you share more details on how this is done? I’m very curious as to how we can use the cocoa pods instead of throwing them away.
One of the reasons why I want to get into the chocolate industry was to help the African Farmers throughout the world.
Ghana needs manufacturing and processing coco plants to give the coco farmers better salaries
@@lyntoncampbell1425 thanks for letting me know I will add that to my my notes.
I love chocolate so much and we are giving this cocoa away
One can only do bette if one has sen better.Since you have seen better my brother , do it, remember we have to work together Abantu.
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Wode Maya I love you and what you’re doing too. Well done aburo mi oko Trudy. You gas to figure what I wrote though😂😂😂😂😂..
@@WODEMAYA they used the ashis of the pod for making soap
Who doesn't love Wode Maya?
I very much appreciate the REAL education; thanks a million!
You are so real to who you are. That's what the things I love about you Wode Maya. Peace be upon you, my brother.
Thank you for shedding a light on this topic. Ghana politicians wake up, wake up, wake up.
Here in the Caribbean we also do crabs hunting. If you squeeze the eyes of the carb it would let loose of your finger.
Hmmm brother, say it again!!!!! We really need to do something about Agriculture @farminginafrica
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
You can make charcoal briquettes out of the dry cocoa pods.
The cocoa husk is used for medicine soap, firewood, pomade, alcoholic drinks, fertilizer and many more
Please look at options of establishing a cocoa processing factory. Give the farmers a fair price and we will support you
Bro we have cocoa processing company here in Ghana, the problem is our leaders
Yes indeed our leaders is our major problem....
Individuals cannot buy the cocoa. It is illegal to sell to individuals. The government buys it
-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.
Wode Maya is doing great for Africans.
As a cocoa farmer. Thank you for the support
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.
Ghana NEEDS to produce it's own chocolate completely self sufficiently.
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..
Exactly! There is no money in primary products but us Africans don't seem to learn
@@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.
The problem is Ghana has no diary industry and has to import powdered milk which does not give the best chocolate.
Much appreciated work as usual. I’m from a farming background in the Caribbean who grew cocoa. This is nice to see.
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!!! 👍🏿
One Chinese friend helped you start your TH-cam 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!!!
wonderful thought
Wode Maya, this person makes a great point, it's something to think about.
A great idea that we will support
Spoken right.
What a great idea.. please someone ask Wode Maya to do it
Cocoa pod husk can be used for soap, and for organic manure
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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 is an awesome ans eye opening video wode maya
Thank for sharing love your video continue showing Africa.we all are African ❤my brother God bless
The cocoa husk can be use as organic fertiliser and it already organic fertiliser
It's time for Ghana 🇬🇭 to build It's own factory and provide for its own products, and give people a lively hood..
My mum is a cocoa farmer but still poor 😢
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.
@@Flourish_today You very right
@@Flourish_today Ghana already uses it to create black soap.
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The pud can be use to make black soap
This is heartbreaking. Africa is the richest continent with the most hardworking and poorest people.
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.
We do not have enough missiles and powerful militaries to defend Cocoa prices. Who would respect us?
@@CivilRepair if Africans were processing their goods they will be in a better position to negotiate better prices
@@amenhalleluyah1111 people are not allowed to sell directly to the market
Wode Maya's Coco farm here i come
The pods can be used to produce better bathing soap, it can also be used as a compost to farm mushrooms and other vegetables..... 👍👍
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.
Not only can burn to potassium Ash for soap
Watching from Malawi 🇲🇼🇲🇼🇲🇼🇲🇼
I love your "Na penda Congo 🇨🇩" t-shirt!!!!!
The cocoa pod can be processed into ash and the ash can be use to produce African Black Soap.
Really? I've never heard that. We learn new things every day.
U r right @it's Zita my mum use to do that in the village 👌😍😍🤗❤️
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According to the internet those brown cacao shells can be used as fertilizer. It can be used to make husk tea. Weed killer. High in fiber so you can make packaging and other materials. Fabric dye. Animal fadder.
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
Wode Mayaaaaa, son of the soil. You are the best always.
This your brother with white Shirt 👕, looks like someone I know in Austria 🇦🇹, we attend the same Church ⛪️ COP.
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
Why don't you lease it to the miners ... and let the local farmers setup businesses to feed, shelter and transport and protect the miners?
@@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
@@philipbanda6637 👍🏾
How many of the farmers out there in South Africa are blacks?
Thanks Wode for a really interesting video. I'd love to come to Ghana and visit you all one day. I noticed that the price of cocoa has increased 252% in the past year. Is the Ghana government now paying Cocoa farmers 3 times as much?
Thanks u maya for your voice out on poor cocoa farmers because they suffered most and gain nothing 😢shame on to our Ghanaians leaders
Thanks for bring it to light, brighter !
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.
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.
It is used to manufacture local soap like Amonkye yeah that is the black cocoa pod you asked for the benefit.
The ash of the pod can be used for soaps
22:01 I totally agree with Kweku
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.
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.
You guys are blessed. Really thank you for sharing. Watching from Namibia land of the brave. 🇳🇦
Wode Maya , my greetings to Auntie Maggie oooó ✊✊✊✊. Good work done 👍. From Kojokrom Sekondi Ahenkofi 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭
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,
Finances is coming,. Time is due. Leaders are awakening. Hope is Alive. Bless the children of Africa.
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
Yesss that mi seh! Thank God someone else see it like time over due
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,
i think we can think of making manure from those pods, decompose them and then applied in farms as organic manure,
we can also make livestock feeds.
thses are just ,y ideas that i think can be tried and tested
wani isaac a south sudanese refugee in udanda
You have a beautiful hearty, and genuine laughter 😃. It lifts my mood😊
It seems so lunch fun. Maybe the cocoa leftover can be used for charcoal.
Really a heartbreak 💔😕.. Wode Maya you are doing the god job
This is so sad to see all this what's going on with the Cocoa in Africa 🌍 😢.
It also blew my mind about the crad in the hole under the cocoa tree. Woda Maya, you always put out great content 👏 that's why I watch your channel. May God continue to keep blessing, your wife & family on you journey in Jesus mighty name amen 🙌
Well done beloved brother WodeMaya Trudy❤
Village Boy thanks for the tour of your farm
Good on you Wode Maya. The world needs to know.
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?
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!
Thank you Maya. Come one Ghana Come on Africa.
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).
And most times some people don't want us to talk about these things, but it's true, and it's unbelievable major scam.
Produce potassium ash from the pod. it’s used for soap making
Wode I really appreciate how you're showing african to the whole world, very soon I will invite you to my town in Ogun state NIGERIA, keep it up God will reward you abundantly
@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.
Where is your video of this?
@@sunnyjohnson8533 I really did not edit the video but here is one I did a couple of years back
th-cam.com/video/h1Ay8abhuic/w-d-xo.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.
Omo Cocoa farming makes one poor😮 I alwsys think that Cocoa farming is a lucrative business oh chai this is indeed deep.
Highly informative. The government should see this
I use to eat those in the Caribbean . My mother use to make coco rolls and we make tea with it. It has lots of health benefits. Enjoy Ghana baby. Oh my you make me miss my youngest days going to the farm 😢
This is why Jamaica processes its own cocoa at factory called the "Dispensery."
You can use the pods for charcoal
This is really great education 👏🏼
Great. Insightful. We must start a revolution for cocoa farmers. Thanks Wode Maya
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.
Africa is so blessed 🙌...So sad, that African in Africa still struggle we need liberation and the time is NOW!!!
Well done my brother,we are blessed in Ghana, good job thanks for sharing
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.
Wode Maya another great documentary. Cocoa is not just used for to make chocolate. There are more products made from cocoa. Also cocoapods can be used as natural fertilizer.
Aloha Wode Maya yr. farm is going to continue to prosper bringing awareness is important more so because a lot of the us people depend on chocolate for their own business's. much love Cacique Anacaona
Bless you bro. I need to visit your farm one day. I live in the best chocolate producing country in the world and it’s amazing what they do here with our cocoa.
The Great Wode Maya 👑🏆.
I can relate when I go to my dads coco farm and coconut grove in St Lucia.. which looks just like Ghana. including the land crabs 😁
Cocoa pods ash is used to make organic soap called black soap. Locally called Alata samina.
I love the chemistry and love among ur siblings
I know you can do it. "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me " you're my inspiration.
Thanks my bro for the good work you are doing for our mother land. The Cocoa hulls can be use to prepare our local soap. I mean the black soap. My uncle use to do that when we were kids. It can use for washing clothes and showering. I 💕 what you doing keep it up. God bless
Us viewers should link up (online) in numbers and invest in these type of projects.
Wode Maya you should make your own chocolate 🍫. You have the pull and influence to promote and sell it.
Someday
And if he needs investors, we're ready. Let's help the farmers, provide employment for the locals and make great chocolate 🍫
@@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
Here in Japan, a very popular chocolate sold in convenience stores is called Ghana. I guess the beans are brought in from Ghana and processed here into chocolate. Ghana can earn more if such processing is done in your own country. A great video Wode Maya!
that might not work....i imagine chocolate producers in Japan use the beans and process the chocolate using their own ingredients and formula..it wouldnt make sense for Japan to give Ghana its recipe for its brand of chocolate, then lets Ghana make their chocolate, then sell the already made product back to them...
@@carsonc29 and that's exactly what I said. Instead of exporting the raw beans, Ghana would earn more if they process their own chocolate before exporting it overseas
@@ExplorewithHAROLD thats not gonna work...imagine you had your own chocolate company in the UK..you have your own way of making your chocolate...so now instead of you buying the beans raw, and processing them using YOUR methods, you now have to sell your secrets to Ghana, lets them make YOUR chocolate, then sell it right back to you....that isnt something youre gonna wanna do..
@@carsonc29 I think you didn't get my point at all. I wasn't saying that those chocolate factories should sell their chocolate-making recipes to Ghana .....I was just saying that if Ghana could find a way to process most of the cocoa beans themselves they would earn more .... I think my initial comment was just plain and simple.....Japan is getting raw beans from Ghana and has earned more after adding value to it ...Much of that money would be Ghana's if they invested in factories to add more value to the raw beans....I am not saying for you people to get the English people or the Japanese to show you their way of making chocolate....invest in finding a way to process the beans...that was just my point....
100%!
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.
Amazing innovation
Ghana is literally a gold mine. People just need a drive and policies to help to do things like this.
This. Is. Crazy. Though. Be cause. They. Use. The. Cocoa. To. Make. Soooooo. Many. Things
@@maureenburrell5452 exactly
Amen. The. World. Needs. Africa. Much. More. Than. Mother. Africa. Needs. Needs. The. World. True. True. Much. Blessings. Going. Forward up. Up. Up. Up.
Thank you Wode Maya for this video.Bravo👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
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.
True
@wodemaya in Kenya we turn the coconut shells to briquettes which is then used for cooking and people are not exposed to the carbon monoxide that’s emitted when you use charcoal. Perhaps you can look into how the Cocoa shells can be turned into briquettes as they last longer and you don’t use a huge amount for cooking. I hope this helps as it will be a game changer
Nice
I love this video
U re speaking in behalf of our fathers
Dry cocoa pods are use for soda that is used in making soap ( that local soap)
if you leave the pods in a pile, they will turn to compost.
compost is soil which farmers use to plant in.
you can mix the compost with crab dirt which can be found by a tamarind tree, tamarind tree soil is very soft, crab digs in it, mix both the tamarind dirt with the pods dirt and you can plant anything in it.
love this video by the way, love content like this...#Respects my brother🖤🖤🖤💯💯
Hey bro... compress the dried husks... press them as hard as u can together
... can they be used as heating pellets.
Can they be used as fire wood.
We have a product in canada .. an easy start fire log. One log to get the fire started. It is dried saw dust and other things compressed to look like a log. It burns easy...
Could be a usefull idea.
I did a quick google and it says cocoa husks have alot of nutrients.. maybe can be used for a supplement.. ( note: I do not know if cocoa husk is actually good. It was a google suggestion
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